Children with Down syndrome are only born to older parents?
Fiction: 80% of children with Down syndrome are born to women younger than 35. However, the likelihood of having a child with Down syndrome does increase with the age of the mother.
Children with Down syndrome are always happy?
Fiction: People with Down syndrome have the same feelings and moods as everyone else.
People with Down syndrome cannot form relationships?
Fiction: People with Down syndrome are perfectly capable of forming all types of relationships with people they encounter in their lives, be it friendship, love or dislike.
People with Down syndrome cannot have children?
Fiction: Women with Down syndrome can and have had children. It has been recorded that two men with Down syndrome have become fathers. The information about fertility in people with Down syndrome is very outdated and based on research in institutions where men and women with intellectual disabilities were kept apart.
All people with Down syndrome will eventually develop Alzheimer’s disease (dementia)?
Fiction: Although many people with Down syndrome do develop dementia in their later years, this is by no means inevitable. Research indicates that the incidence of dementia in people with Down syndrome is similar to that of the general population only that it occurs 20-30 years earlier.
Kayla Lake
I have a brother in law that has a daughter with down syndrome. So I was trying to get more information on the way their minds work because him and I got into a fight about him saying that I didnt’ know enough about Down Syndrome. So I have decided that I would learn more about it. I know plenty about the science behind it and I understand how it develpos, but I would really like to know how they should be treated and the way that they learn. Is there any way that I could have someone explain to me justhow they should be treated and also how they learn. Also I thoguht that she should be on a deit because she is very heavy and they allow her to eat anything thing that she wants, she will (and I’m not kidding about this) eat 2 packages of hot dogs a day what would be something good to recomened to them that they do?
Susi B
I would say mind your own business and love her the way she is!