Day Twenty-Two of Get it Down–Homecoming
Today an online buddy of mine posted about her daughter. She is a junior in high school, and she was just selected as the junior Homecoming Princess. She has Down syndrome and was up against three typical girls, and she won!
As exciting as that is, her story is not as atypical as you might think! If you do a google search for “Down syndrome Homecoming Queen,” you will find story after story about people with Down syndrome being voted into these positions by their typical peers.
Now why is THAT not news that doctors share with their patients when giving the diagnosis of Down syndrome?? And hooray for today’s youth who are educated right alongside their peers with an extra chromosome. They recognize and affirm the value in the life of these young people in a way that much of our society seems to miss.