In moving from Upstate NY to GA, I noticed Down’s kids went from almost none to almost common.
“In moving from Upstate NY to GA, I noticed Down’s kids went from almost none to almost common.”
And it ain’t because we “marry our first cousins down here”.
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I see a somewhat different story here.
I noticed a grocery store where every bagger and back room stock person seemed to be at least mildly retarded, in a real way. So I mentioned to a salaried cashier that the grocery seems to prefer hiring the handicapped.
“No kidding!”, they said. “And every other grocery in the city would be happy to hire them.”
He continued, “Someone like them are rare among employees. They are *always* on time to work, *always* happy to work, more than willing to do any chore they are asked to do, and they generally lack most of the personal problems that other hires have. They don’t steal, gossip, fight, slack off, anything.”
Finally he said that one of the really frustrating things is that they will hire someone, and they never show up to work. We never hear from them again after they accept a job offer.
The last “normal” hire they had, when he took a break, went out in front of the grocery and started smoking a joint. He didn’t seem to comprehend that marijuana is illegal, and was puzzled when the manager fired him.
When I started, the camp population was almost exclusively Down Syndrome children. About 60 kids having the time of their lives each summer.
Now, the camp population is about 90% autistic. We see maybe three or four kids with Downs Syndrome, if that many.
The children who aren't there anymore obviously received "the protective choice."