There is nothing wrong with being disabled, there is also nothing wrong with *not* being disabled.
Are you one of those parents who would refuse a Cochlear Implants for your kid so they could be ‘proud’ of being deaf?
I have a kid who is peanut allergic. It’s not a physical deformity but she has to always sit at a special table at school, bring her own food to birthday parties, and cant get some ids favorite summer treats.
She has to carry an epi-pen around all the time. This is nothing to be ashamed of but its also *nothing* to be proud of either. You can bet you’re last nickle that if there was a procedure to eliminate the allergy I would walk over broken glass to get it for her.
She is also a bit on the small side, as was I until puberty, She gets picked on for her height called a ‘toy’ and a ‘doll’ in a derisive way. I explain that God makes us all different and that it’s what inside that counts. I would not do any kind of surgery, pill, or procedure to make her taller.
This little girls ears were deformed and correctable so what’s the issue with correcting? If they could cure some of those special Olympians would it be wrong?
For the record, we did everything for our daughters external physical disabilities that was medically necessary stopping short of recreating her external appearance that was not a medical necessity. She was just over 2 lbs when she was born in 1983, so don't come back at me with lame arguments based on vanity. You want to talk about a child being teased because of physical traits, you came at the wrong person. I doubt there are many here who have had children go through what our daughter has where getting teased is concerned. When she was at school she was constantly teased by some, especially on the bus ride to & from school but she had her big brother there to stand up for & beside her because he was taught from birth that respect for others is how you gain respect for yourself. When she was in teeball & softball, she wasn't the best on the team and sure she took some teasing from others, but she never cowered & her teammates saw her inner strength & stood up for her while standing beside her. As one of her coaches, I couldn't have been more proud of the entire team. When she got bullied & teased at the playground her older brother, cousins & friends also stood up for her & beside her. When she had her last surgery as a sophomore, the entire boys football team was very proud to visit her & spend time with her in the hospital where both her legs were in casts up to her thighs and she was wheelchair bound for months. During those months the team took part in helping her navigate the halls of the school so she could get from class to class on time. She garnered their respect because she didn't cower to teasing or let her deformities stop her from achieving, she stood it directly in the eye and called it our for what it was.
Her older brother was taken from us 5 years ago next month the lessons we taught him, the lessons & support he passed to his younger sister will remain with her forever as she continues to stand in the face of adversity & those that said she would never make it as far as she has. And she has done it without the aid of plastic surgery to recreate external deformities. Her true friends are still a big part of her life and all the others, well, they are eating crow.
Children truly learn what they live & some children choose not to live some of the things they learned. My prayer is that this little girl is one of the latter because she was truly a beautiful child before the knife was taken to her.
I gave birth to 3 children, two of them were born without deform, or as you would have it, outwardly appealing to the mans eye. God called those 2 home to be with Him. Perfection is in the eye of the beholder because as far as we are concerned, our living daughter is nothing but perfection. It's the lessons, not the appearance that matters.