In a world where there is a bias against disabled people this is not a true choice. Even with conditions where there is no pain/discomfort involved, parents would generally choose not to expose their child to negative treatment by others, so they would choose to remove the condition.
This goes, too, for things that are not "disabilities" exactly, like a cleft lip or crossed eyes, which modern medicine puts unbelievable pressure on parents to "fix" for their children. It's a vicious circle, because a parent who makes the perfectly rational decision to avoid years of mistreatment for their healthy children by "fixing" the condition (in ways that often come with immense risks and side-effects) thereby make the condition even more invisible in the next generation. I don't know what to do about this, and it makes me really sad.
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Date: Thursday, 11 April 2013 07:13 pm (UTC)In a world where there is a bias against disabled people this is not a true choice. Even with conditions where there is no pain/discomfort involved, parents would generally choose not to expose their child to negative treatment by others, so they would choose to remove the condition.
This goes, too, for things that are not "disabilities" exactly, like a cleft lip or crossed eyes, which modern medicine puts unbelievable pressure on parents to "fix" for their children. It's a vicious circle, because a parent who makes the perfectly rational decision to avoid years of mistreatment for their healthy children by "fixing" the condition (in ways that often come with immense risks and side-effects) thereby make the condition even more invisible in the next generation. I don't know what to do about this, and it makes me really sad.