Down syndrome causes
A mothers age plays a huge role in the likeliness of down syndrome, women under 30 have a 1/1000 chance of a baby with down syndrome where as women over 40 have 12 times the likeliness of receiving a baby with down syndrome. The physical cause of down syndrome is that on your 21st chromosome there is a extra genetic copy making it so you have 47 chromosomes rather than 46.
Physical traits that may occur on a person with down syndrome are
-Protruding tongue
-short neck and small stature
-Flat nose bridge
Down syndrome children tend to have lagged motor skills and takes them much longer to learn to walk crawl and sit as babies.
Obvious physical effects that we can see a lot of the time is heavy trouble speaking moving and controlling themselves because they don’t know what is normal.
Imagine being born not knowing that you’d be anything but normal and then as you grow at a slower pace then others realize that you have a condition that you had no say in getting and know that you are limited, as a gene you grow off of the 21st chromosome as an extra and then as you develop you become a human child but because of this extra chromosome you have troubles developing, your first time looking in the mirror comes around and you notice that your face is flat with upward slanting eyes and a tongue that looks quite abnormal to other kids, as you grow up you notice that the kids around you are standing up whilst you’re still stuck on the floor incapable of standing and other kids start to look at you weird because of how you look some time passes and you can now walk just like normal kids except it seems a bit spazzy, while in gym class you notice that you’re slower than the other kids and seem to be quite limited, although the teacher is very nice to you and helps a lot as you start to be able to speak its very messy and hard to understand, going into your teenage years you start to undertstand your own identity and your disability and learn that you can live a good life with the proper help and you try very hard to learn what you can so you can become a productive member of society, into your adult years your problems are still there physically but mentally you’ve become almost independent although special help will probably always be needed, now looking in the mirror you see yourself as more normal looking but still more than noticeable, you notice walking around that your problems are a lot better than they used to be, you can now keep a decent conversation though still not very clear. You now feel like that you can work a small job that effects very little of your limitations.
I hoped you enjoyed my story about people with the gene mutation a lot of the story line came from videos that highlight how down syndrome people grow and develop a small part is unrealistic but adds more and contrasts the story the well (the part of him being around a lot of other normal kids(which may not happen for a lot of down syndrome people))
