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0 pointssundvor4y ago0 comments

"The good news is that the invasive test proved the screener was incorrect. The bad news is that it looks like you've now lost your baby. It was fine though!".

The risks associated with this extended testing are just not worth it, perhaps aside from Down's (from a numbers point of view). Even then, there are many completely gorgeous children and people with Down's .. chances are you'll have a curveball in life one way or another at any rate.

I have two children, one diagnosed with ADHD/ASD, the other likely not too different but too early to tell. Apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. Wouldn't change a thing, other than to avoid the ABA services companies like plague - they prey on your insecurities and you might face financial ruin for possibly no real benefit to the child if you go along with their spiels.

So, to see medical companies exploiting vulnerable new parents who will do anything for their children? I am shocked. (/S...)

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CorrectHorseBat4y ago

You are free not to take the test, but I think we would have taken the 0.3% risk to see if it is really Down's. While children with Down's can be gorgeous, I am not up to the task.

sundvorOP4y ago

We did get the test for it for my two; can't recall if we did any extra ones. Believe we skipped them, at least on the 2nd.

I've come around to maybe change my mind since then, however I'd need to be in a very good position to be able to be up to the task.

I truly wouldn't have been, the ASD diagnosis was hard enough - and made magnitudes harder due to the manipulations of the "autism industry". Do this, do that, or else - you only have one chance for an early intervention, so better throw your own life away or you'll be a bad, bad parent.

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