i recently, i’ve been able to spend some time with a person who had down syndrome. A few things i’ve noticed.
this particular girl knows two (2) languages. I think is pretty impressive.And you cannot know this easily, it’s very difficult to only in certain situations, will she speak one of the languages? languages. And yes, even her family member cannot really force her to just start speaking the other language. But in certain conditions, she will speak the other language just fine.
i’m sure you’ve seen homeless people talking to themselves right ? This particular down syndrome lady will also start talking to herself , particularly when she is left out of conversation. It just seems something that is part of being human.That we will talk even to ourselves if there’s no other choice.
she will notice things but she will not make eye contact and focus on them sometimes. For whatever reason, her her brain is often completely fine with the blurry peripheral picture. Often only uses peripheral to look at something with her peripheral vision, and that’s enough for her to know what’s going on. And maybe start laughing at a situation, or you know, understand that there is something going on that she needs to move away from or whatever. And she never makes eye contact , in some of those instances. I don’t think this is something trained that she has a trained behavior ; I think this is just the way her mind works. Something about focus, focusing on things for down syndrome people is is a little bit different than everyone else. We want to focus on things.Normal people want to see these things better.But the down syndrome, people don’t seem to always need to do that. Perhaps because it just takes more energy, maybe it’s a little tiresome.I don’t know what it is. For sure there’s mysteries here
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spending the time with this person definitely has changed my mind, i have a different perception of average down syndrome person.
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