Can we stop pretending that downs people are all drooling smiley faces that can’t think at all?

There is a massive spectrum of capabilities and genetic complexities associated with it.

My sister has Downs and she was incredibly bright until she had a stroke as a child (as a complication with Downs). There are Downs people who live mostly normal lives.

And also, yes, I’ve had some awesome times with my sister, and the look of joy on her face when she plays sports is one of the purest things on Earth. But there was also a lot of crying and yelling and fighting in my life caring for her. The highs are definitely high, and the lows are low.

It is a disability, but I hate how anything stupid is represented by Downs features.

The image/caption adds absolutely nothing to the top text.

Ignoring the obvious conversation about downs, a story:

A friend of mine when we were roughly 20ish had a pregnant dog, and needed to go out of town. Asked me to watch the dog in case she had the puppies. I agreed. She then became very serious about complications in labor, and I told her not to worry, I had the vet's number, and dog's generally have an easier time of it than people. She kept going on about making sure she would be alright, and after listening to her for several minutes, it became clear she did not understand what would be happening, and was concerned there was a chance one of the babies would get stuck in the dog's butt. Because she genuinely thought sometimes babies can come out the butt if they get lost in there.

If she be like that I'm gonna guess she'd still have trouble feeding one positive pregnancy test.

Its funny, but we got to stop making fun of disabled people

The joke would work fine as Post Traumatic Dumb Shit, I think. I bet there's other better ways to construct it too, if you don't think that scans.

That's if you don't want to be buried in ableism accusations when you use it, which are, imo, getting in the way of this fine little meme.

It loses the association with "unfortunate things that happen in your head" problems, but Downs and PTSD are different categories of things anyway. Inherited vs inflicted, permanent vs temporary, etc. Doesn't quite work.

People these days are too knowledgeable not to have that part screw with their ability to laugh at the joke, even if they understand it's not malicious at all.

can we pls stop shitting on disabled people. pls

just call her "dumb" or sth, no need to call her "down syndrome"