Each year, about 6,000 babies with Down syndrome are born in the United States to parents who are often crushed at the diagnosis because they’ve lived their lives ignorant of what it really means to have the syndrome.
While out shopping one day, Robb Scott, a Nova Scotia dad who’s son Turner has Down syndrome, overheard a little boy ask his father what Down syndrome was. The man replied that it was an illness of ‘not knowing anything.’
Scott hesitated to correct the man and missed the opportunity to stop the spread of misinformation and ignorance, but what he would have said to the little boy is now going viral.
Scott explains that Down syndrome is, in fact, not an illness or a disability at all. “Down syndrome is literally one of the most beautiful things that has ever happened in my life,” Scott says. “It’s fun, it’s brilliant, it’s amazing, it’s funny, it’s kind, it’s loving, it’s cuddly.”
When the boy asked what Down syndrome was, “He asked it in the most honest, sincere way. And he was a blank slate. The father wasn’t being malicious — I could tell he was fumbling around for the words, trying to find the right description. And he said, ‘It’s an illness. It’s an illness of not knowing anything.’ And my heart sank. It’s not an illness. It’s not even a disability… disabilities are perception,” Scott said.
Watch the entire video below to hear this incredible father’s response to an ignorant comment.
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[Featured Image: YouTube/Robb Scott]
Dad Tearfully Explains Why Down Syndrome Is The Best Thing To Ever Happen To Him is an article from: LifeDaily