World Down Syndrome Day

Today is World Down Syndrome Awareness Day- 3/21, in honor of the 3 replications of the 21st chromosome. 

The idea of today is to educate people about Down Syndrome. In my six and a half years of active learning about Down Syndrome and its impact on my life and others, there are a few truths I’ve come to: 

• We can never truly know a person’s gifts and challenges at any one point in their life. 
• Labels and diagnoses may help guide us, but they never offer the full and complete picture of any of our loved ones. 
• There is never just one path, or just one answer. 
• There is such relief, after such struggle, when we learn the above. 

Click here (or see below) to watch the sweet video people with Down Syndrome came together to make for a mother who had just received a prenatal diagnosis and was scared.

-Ellen Lonnquist, MS, LMFT