March 21. World Down Syndrome Day. An Important day for Important people, which cannot and must not be the umpteenth lost opportunity for true growth cultural.
Establish world days dedicated to categories technical of people, it is not EVER a good sign. They always imply something that is not going as it should. Why would some categories of people want to have a day dedicated exclusively to them? Why do they consider themselves invisible to the eyes of many? Why do they see some of their fundamental rights violated? Or why do they have no easy access or absolutely no access to these fundamental rights? Why do they belong to categories too often set aside and forgotten, to be pulled out only for dubious opportunities or questionable ulterior motives?
In a few days, exactly March 21 will be World Down Syndrome Day. Probably, and inevitably, there will be meetings and events where rivers of words will flow, very often banal, bowed by unbearable clichés and badly digestible hypocrisies, not pronounced by parents, support teachers or employers of people with Down Syndrome. , but from authority who have never shared a short walk or coffee with these people.
La normal banality of the ignorant
They will come and explain how people with Down Syndrome are people like us, or people: "normal". And this is where fall the many who speak without knowing, who utter rivers of words from "ignorant", In the literal sense of the term, that is they ignore the topic they are talking about. We very much hope that we will be spared all this, because in a day like this we need more. Much more. What many don't know or pretend not to understand is that people with Down's Syndrome are not like us, they are infinitely "best"Of us, because they have a wealth of emotional feelings that we"normal"We do not even imagine, because it does not concern our nature as"normal".
Parrot they have in their eyes and hearts only the will to live, always and in any case. In the their difficult times are their who give strength to those around them, they are their who understand difficult moments before and better than others their smiles and their actions manage to eliminate, as if by magic, all problems. And do we want to define these people as "normal"? No, they are much more. Parrot are over and they go over, over our narrow, dark and problematic horizons. The their horizon is made of light. Parrot are the Sun and the others revolve around their, each around the US star.
An authentic cultural change
If this day dedicated to Down Syndrome can teach anything, it can only be about a change in our eyes, in the way we look, in the way we look. save you, these people. If that feeling faded by magic, most hateful, of ill-concealed pietism that overflows from the eyes of many at the sight of a person with Down's Syndrome, the day would have some meaning and would reach an absolutely unexpected result.
Above all, it should also cease the daily use of violent and discriminatory language, where the term handicapped it is equated with the worst of offenses. This happens not only among young people, but even those in institutional positions at the local or national level are often tainted with such verbal obscenities. The problem is cultural. If you accept that words like Mongoloid or phrases like "you look down”, Which explicitly refer to physical and / or cognitive disabilities, which are always and only pronounced with the clear intention of offending, we will not get out of it. EVER.
#CalziniSpaiatiChallenge, or the uniqueness of the human being
After so dark, let's go back to their light. We are talking about a splendid initiative. Creative, joyful, colorful. How their. Put on unmatched socks without delay to help those who need them most. The unmatched socks represent a real nightmare for anyone who is about to do a washing in the washing machine, then having the mathematical certainty of not being able to recompose the couples. So let's make the most of this "nightmare" for good: the #CalziniSpaiatiChallenge is held every year on March 21 and is associated with World Down Syndrome Day. On this date two different socks are worn to celebrate the uniqueness of the human being.
Why did different colored socks become the symbol of World Down Syndrome Day? because the chromosomes have the shape similar to a sock, while the date of March 21 evokes the presence of an extra chromosome in position 21 responsible for this genetic anomaly, therefore called Trisomy 21.
And then, a sincere Happy 21 March to all Parrot and their families!
