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Down Syndrome -

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Also known as: Trisomy 21 · Down syndrome · chromosomal anomaly · trisomy · genetic difference · intellectual disability · chromosome disorder 21 · translocation trisomy

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Down syndrome is not a symptom in the classical sense. It is a genetic constitution -- Trisomy 21 -- in which an extra chromosome shapes the entire development of a person from the very beginning. No behavioural pattern caused it. No psychological dynamic triggered it. No one is to blame -- neither the parents nor the child.

And yet a deeper look is worthwhile. Not to explain the genetics away, but to ask: what qualities does a person with Down syndrome bring into the world? What does this constitution show us about themes that concern us all -- about spontaneity, about feeling, about the relationship between mind and heart? And what can we learn from these people when we stop viewing them through the lens of deficit?

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