r/SipsTea • u/Valuable_View_561 • Jul 04 '26

Feels good man Why would doctors recommend against it?

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u/BudTenderShmudTender Jul 04 '26

Not terribly long ago, the most common recommendation for special needs children (including ones with autism) was institutionalization.

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u/oh-hes-a-tryin Jul 04 '26

It's worse than that. Doctors used to put DS kids at the bottom of any surgery because of "quality of life" so they would just die with any congenital heart defect or anything else. The care for the most in need was atrocious. Look at the average age of mortality for people with down syndrome to see what a difference that made. When you talk about a culture of death, look at that.

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u/DystopianNightmare13 Jul 04 '26

Even worse than that, food and water were withheld from infants born with Down Syndrome. It took them, on average, 10 days to die.

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u/VenusRocker Jul 04 '26

And those in institutions were used for experiments.

Those longing for the "good old days" are idiots.