I just ran across this. My daughter has Down Syndrome, and the NDSS feed is on my Facebook page. That’s how I found it. Very cool what Mr. Tremonti did, and oddly nice to know he’s part of the family.
I saw a reference above about “horrible disease”. Just some well intentioned comments, please don’t take offense or duck for cover!
1) it’s a genetic condition - 3 copies of the 21st chromosome. Hence World Down Syndrome Day is March 21st -3/21.
2) Horrible. I get where that could come from, but not so horrible. If there was a checklist for what you get with your kids, my wife and I would not have checked that box, and yet we were blessed. Would we undo it if we could? I honestly don’t know.
3) my daughter is an amazing, wonderful, optimistic, innocent human being. I am honestly in awe of her most every day. She tries twice as hard to be the best she can be. She may well go to a four year college program, though likely not resulting in a degree.
4) it’s different at my house, the journey has had significant challenges, but it’s usually a lot of fun here as well!
Ok, soapbox classroom is over. Thank you to Mr. Tremonti for his generous gift, and thanks to all here for indulging me.