My response to a video that saddened me a bit..

This I feel needs to be addressed. These are my opinions and I know everyone has a right to their opinion but this is how I feel about the subject in hand. 

So what happened was I was watching a YouTube video on a response on a little boy who asked his father what Down syndrome was. His father said to him it's an illness. Now my response to that video was no its not an illness and it did make me feel a bit saddened that that person would say something like that. If my son had Down syndrome or wanted to know what it was I would say to my son that Down syndrome is something that some people are born with but it is something that makes that person special. It's a part of you. It makes you who you are. Just because u feel different from everyone else doesn't mean that you are. You are intelligent you are handsome and you are loved and that's all that matters. People need to understand that disabilities doesn't change a person from who they are. Yes they may need extra help with certain things or they may talk slower or find things a little nor difficult to do, but they are just like you and me. They are people and they have feelings and emotions and think just like we do and for this father to tell his son that Down syndrome is an illness was maybe not the right way to have gone about it. He probably wasn't trying to be rude about it  but sometimes u just have to be more tactical at how you approach certain subjects. Down syndrome children are beautiful funny and smart kids that can do whatever they put their mind to, just like you and me. We are all the same no matter race, sexual orientation, or disability. But I don't see Down syndrome as a disability. If I had a kid with Down syndrome I wouldn't see it as an illness enough to abort,  I see it as a gift given from God to make that child unique and special And a gift because God gave you to me. If I ever had a Down syndrome child I would never abort them.  Most hospitals will ask that question.. Yes they may be a little more work to look after but it's still a child. Unless it's in the best interest of the child would I give them up, never for the best interest of ME!. That child was created so you work with it and that child will be loved the same as any other child without any issues or illnesses.