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It sounds like your brother is high functioning and has a wonderful life.

Unfortunately Down Syndrome children can also be born with severe medical disabilities that require dozens and dozens of surgeries throughout their life and profound retardation.  It is completely different to raise a child like that, and unfortunately there is no way pre-birth to determine the severity of the syndrome.  I have a relative with Down Syndrome who will never have the quality of life your brother has and it has nothing to do with being given options, taking advantage of government support, etc.  You seem very naive.[/quote]

I don't think I'm naive. I've been around a huge number of people with DS, since I attended his events at school, church, etc. When he started school, they had special schools (now they do mainstreaming, which started when he was half-way through school). A few were severe (profound retardation), but most were moderate, and a few were mild.

I googled around (can't find a definitive link though with percentages), and most sites state that most DS cases are mild to moderate, so my observations being around many DS people seem to line up with that.

I agree severe DS is much more complicated, but I just didn't see it that much. I really don't think it's that common.
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