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T Xr i s o m y terminate the Stigma Amara Lin
You walk into a restaurant to
meet up with your friends for dinner. As you walk past the other tables looking for your party you begin to hear alarming noises coming from one of the tables. You look over to see a little girl, maybe seven or eight years old. She’s yelling, spinning, and running around the restaurant. You look at her mother who’s obviously struggling to control her child, subconsciously giving them a look of disapproval. “Discipline your kid,” you mutter as you take a seat with your friends and begin to gossip about the mother’s lack of parenting. Little do you know, the little girl and her family deal with this all the time. She has Trisomy X, and these “meltdowns” are a common symptom. What you saw is only a small portion of what their family conquers every day. Her mother usually aims to avoid settings that could cause sensory overload. However, in this case, she made the rare exception for her grandmother’s birthday dinner.