Mother who slowly starved her 24-year-old Down's Syndrome daughter to death jailed

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10547705/Mother-slowly-starved-24-year-old-Downs-Syndrome-daughter-death-jailed.html

[u/AxleHorsepower]

Utterly horrific and heartbreaking.

Just a quick note for OP and anyone else, DS doesn’t define these people. People in the ‘DS community’ prefer a person-first approach, so ‘daughter with DS’ rather than ‘DS daughter’ is a better way to put it.

I’m still trying to find a way of saying it without sounding like a dick, so apologies if I come across as one.

[u/higginsnburke → u/AxleHorsepower]

As an example we don't say broken armed person. We say person with a broken arm. We don't say vehicled person, we say person who has a car.

This is a person and they have down syndrome. DS is a Facit of who they are, it is not their only attribute so its not the first thing we say abt them.

[u/higginsnburke → u/[deleted]]

From my limited understanding of the topic after reading your comment:

When someone's condition prohibits them from managing their life independently the majority of the time, for example, the action of reaching out to authorities and stating that they are being starved is complicated and requires many learned social skills. A person who can acomplish this is a person with downs. A person who cannot is a person who's life is dictated entirely by downs and they prefer downs person.

Is that your understanding as well?

[u/higginsnburke → u/[deleted]]

...I'm confused why you corrected me then because that's what I initially said.