Hey, sorry if this is a touchy and/or painful subject to you, but I’d like to know your opinion on stunting the growth of severely, intellectually disabled children.

fuckyesdeadpool:

nichy27:

t4millennial:

I’m not sure what you mean by stunting the growth?

I mean by using hormone treatment to stop their physical growth, claiming that this means caring for their often completely dependent child will be easier and will allow the child to enjoy more that way. In some cases the girls get sterilized cause the parents dread having their girl handle painful periods when she’s judged to have the mental capacity of a baby.
I know it’s controversial and yet you’re the only disabled person I know who’s actually talking about disabled rights.
Again, sorry if this is a shocking/painful topic. It’s rightfully controversial and I’ve yet to make up my mind on it.

Okay, I wasn’t sure if you are being metaphorical or not.

I’m absolutely against it. These things are never actually for the benefit of the patient, it’s for the benefit of the caretakers. It’s also an incredibly slippery slope that people haven’t realized we’ve already fallen down.

My parents were pressured to sterilize me. The county school administration insisted that it would be better for me to be sterilized because I have a genetic disease which they did not want to be passed down but there bigger argument was because I needed assistance going to the bathroom and once I started my menstrual cycle it would be too much of an inconvenience to the special ed staff.

This was one of the many time we were threatened to comply with outrageous things or else I would be banned from attending school in the county.

My parents insisted that the decision would be up to me which I appreciate but as an adult don’t think was exactly the right idea. An eight-year-old child can’t exactly make an informed decision about whether they want to be sterilized or not so I think my parents should of said no and left the decision up to me once I became of age. Nonetheless, I refused because I had to deal with enough medical procedures I wasn’t going to volunteer for any more. The county’s threats were not followed through because one of my mom’s favorite phrases is “I’ll sue you” but for years I was pulled out of class and sat down by administration who tried to convince me to be sterilized. In gentle tones I was told how terrifying and painful menstruation was and reminded that people like me didn’t actually need the ability to reproduce because no one would want to marry us or have kids with us.

The risk that people don’t talk about is that a large reason disabled people are sterilized so they don’t reproduce, not because we are expected to have sex lives, but because it is statistically unlikely that we will not be raped at least once.

The sterilization is to protect the rapists.