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How come there's fewer handicapped kids around these days?

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  • #52
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Maybe they're just blending in more as people's fashion taste improves? It always used to annoy me that parents would dress their handicapped children, well eh... handicapped looking. And gave them handicapped looking hair cuts too.


  • #53
    CajunPenguin
    Registered Users Posts: 126 ✭✭CajunPenguin


    Don't you know? They all got better ;)


  • #54
    LH Pathe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    oh tehyr around alright we just don't recognize it anymoar.

    Or em, for it. I mean..


  • #55
    Battered Mars Bar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 672 ✭✭✭Battered Mars Bar


    Rabidlamb wrote: »
    Are parents more embarrassed than their previous generations to be seen in public with them ?

    .


  • #56
    LH Pathe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    that Jordan is a good role model never one to shy away from taking hers out in public often pictured with her little chubs spilling out of the pram. To this day..


  • #57
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,795 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    LH Pathe wrote: »
    that Jordan is a good role model never one to shy away from taking hers out in public often pictured with fat harvey spilling out of the pram. To this day
    That's an unusual take.


  • #58
    LH Pathe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    Got my frankie boyle on there for a second.

    fùckin quick draw mcgraw :/ lost that particular game of hande hoche


  • #59
    Smidge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Smidge


    Gyalist wrote: »
    Not quite correct. While older mothers have a higher risk of having a disabled child, most disabled children are born to younger women simply because more younger women give birth.

    More specifically regarding Travellers, it wouldn't surprise me if the incidence of disability is higher as they marry more or less within a closed circle.


    Was that a guess?

    If so, well done you!

    There is a disorder which is prevalent within both the Irish traveller community and the Amish community called GA1 which is a genetic disorder


  • #60
    yore
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭yore


    Rabidlamb wrote: »
    I brought the kids to the playground last night, one of the mothers had a mildly handicapped child who needed assistance but was really enjoying himself.
    What struck me is how few handicapped children I see nowadays in comparison to growing up in the late 70's, early 80's.
    Are they less visible due to special needs schooling taking them out of the general populace ?.
    Are parents more embarrassed than their previous generations to be seen in public with them ?.
    Are there less children being born with abnormalities due to better diets & supplements taken by the mothers ?.

    Maybe it's just my perception but I took a double take last night as it's been that long since I noticed a child with a handicap.
    Has anyone else noticed this ?.


    Perhaps you just grew up in Offaly or somewhere else like that where people tended to marry close family members


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  • #61
    Rabidlamb
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,202 ✭✭✭Rabidlamb


    yore wrote: »
    Perhaps you just grew up in Offaly or somewhere else like that where people tended to marry close family members

    How could you insult the faithful county, sure didn't it produce one of the finest Taoiseach in our . . . . . . . oh


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