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What Is Normal?

Post published:May 22, 2024
Post category:Disability Down Syndrome
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What is "normal?" I don’t use the word normal very much anymore. It’s just one of the many ways my language has changed in the years since Penny was diagnosed…

Is Disability (or Down Syndrome) Abnormal?

Post published:August 25, 2021
Post category:Disability Down Syndrome
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Is disability abnormal? After Penny was born, we were told she had a genetic abnormality because she had an extra copy of her 21st chromosome. The doctors implied that “abnormal”…