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• Down syndrome is caused by the presence of an extra chromosome in a baby's cells. 3 copies of chromosome 21, instead of the usual 2 copies.
• Around one in every 1000 babies born will have Down syndrome.
• There are over 40,000 people in the UK with the condition.
• Down's syndrome is not a disease. People with Down's syndrome are not ill and do not "suffer" from the condition.
• People with the syndrome will have a learning difficulty; about half will have a heart defect needing operation after birth. However, people with Down's syndrome walk and talk, read and write, go to school and lead fulfilling, semi-independent lives. They tend to be particularly good at relating to other people, mimicry, acting, dancing and music.
• The life expectancy of people with Down syndrome has doubled since the early 1980s due to better medical care and heart operations. 44% of people with Down's syndrome today are living into their 60's.
• In the United States about 20% of adults with Down syndrome do some form of paid work.
Abuse:
As with other forms of disability and difference, children who have not been taught better may use "Downs" or "Downs Syndrome" or "Special Needs" as an abusive term for other children. This is not all that common with "Down Syndrome" though previous terms for people with Down Syndrome (such as "Mongoloid" "Mongol" (shortened to "Mong") and "Retard" have been and still are used abusively and as a result have dropped out of normal use.
"We now know that the child with Down syndrome
can gain significantly from the language and social
skills they observe in their typically-developing peers.
They flourish with exposure to the rich language and
play experiences they witness around them. We also
know that the other children, too, benefit from
having a child with special needs as a peer. "
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Only when the following two conditions are met: First, a state in one's life were nothing of any importance is happening and no real effort is being put into one's life to change it. Second, a total lack of interest in taking any advice from anyone who would know any better then they do. Usually occuring in women going from there older teens to their adulthoods.
Manny: "How come she seems that she doesn't want to do anything with her life?"
Mark: "No its not that she doesn't want to do anything, shes just suffering from Jessica Syndrome."
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The condition that causes some white people to slowly start acting blacker, similar to how frostbite affects the skin.
James: "What's going on with him?"
Nick: "Pretty sure he's got Frostbite Syndrome."
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When a person is delibrately insulting on a regular basis and then claims you can't take a joke.
"I didn't mean it when I said you were an airhead. Don't be offended, I was only kidding"
"I am offended, you do something passive agressive like this every day, there is no excuse for your turdettes syndrom, at least people with tourettes can't help it"
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1. The condition of gradually losing sanity due to the inability to remove "playbacks" of songs from your conscious mind. This occurs when hearing a song several times in a row, wherein your brain can create a cyclical version of the song that repeats key parts of the song without ever ending. In extreme cases, even one word or phrase can be looped infinitely depending on the cadence, tempo, and succession of notes, such as the viral song "Friday" by Rebecca Black for which this syndrome is named. Short term symptoms are agitation and short temper. Particularly long cases, one hour or more, can lead to acts which are unusual for one not affected by this syndrome, such as hitting oneself or screaming, and in extreme cases, attempting to tear oneself's clothes off, coating oneself in maple syrup and various car parts, and blocking rush hour traffic by screaming little known facts about President Buchanan at drivers has been seen in desperate attempts to overcome the syndrome. There is no known cure.
2. The condition of the syndrome in a group of an unspecified number.
3. Any other condition in which one is unable to rid oneself of audial memory.
Parker: Hey, do you remember that song where—
Gene: OH, WHAT THE HELL?! THAT THING GAVE ME FRIDAY SYNDROME FOR LIKE A MONTH AND NOW YOU REMIND ME AGAIN?
Parker: I didn't know the Atlanta Symphony's performance of Vivaldi's Four Seasons had affected you that way.
Gene: You did that on purpose, asshole.
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Pancake Syndrome is where everything in the body of a woman (or man in some cases) is flat. Meaning that they have a flat chest (or breasts), and a flat ass.
Boy #1: Woah, look at that girl, she's way hot.
Boy #2: Uhh, no way man, do you see that flat ass and flat chest?
Boy #1: Man, that girls' got some serious Pancake Syndrome right there.
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when someone can only lift if they are on harsh steroids
Is reegz going to the gym today? Nah, hes got Joey Syndrome hes been off for three days
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