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As someone who has been diagnosed, it really bothers me when people tell me I'm not allowed to want to not be this way. For some people, it's a hell.


That’s even worse, of course you are allowed your own feelings. What gives me the creeps is when people start talking about prevention it easily slides into eugenics or other things that deny poeople agency or even their humanity.

There is a similar thing for deaf people. Or how screening for Down’s has changed the reality of raising a child with it.


If there is a way to prevent your child a life of hardship resulting from being deaf or born with down's syndrome, are you genuinely saying you wouldn't do it?

It's one thing to be content with who you are, it's another to deliberately impose hardship on someone when it could be avoided.


It’s one thing to prevent being born with hardship and preventing being born at all. Which is the case with Down’s screening.

But it’s not that I’m against it or wanting to forbid it. It’s that these are very tricky subjects with a lot of very hard moral issues that need careful consideration. In the end I believe it should be about letting people have a choice and to remember that people are human even if they are different. To not take away someone’s agency.




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