[ SECRET POST #3998 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3998 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Would you abort if you knew your kid would have a severe developmental disability?

[(Anonymous)]

Posted this in a subthread by mistake oops.

Probably, although I might feel like shit about it depending on what exactly the issue was. I have two living blood relatives, four relatives total, and all of them are my parents’ generation and likely to die way before me. I’m 34 and a virgin who’s never even held hands with a guy, so I’m not likely to marry into a big family. I have very few friends, none of them close. Even assuming I went to a bar and found someone desperate enough to knock me up tonight, by the time the kid was born I’d be 35. My mom died at 66 and my dad at 60. So they might end up in the care of strangers and/or a ward of the state for most of their life.

I don’t know if I could be a single parent to an able bodied mentally gifted kid, nevermind if they had special needs, and I’d hate to think of what would happen when I grew too old and/or feeble to care for them. If I had a kid, disabled or developmentally delayed or not, I’d have to care for and raise them, and I doubt I could do it alone. It wouldn’t be fair to a healthy kid to have one and not be able to take care of them, much less a kid that would need to rely on other people for basic care their whole life.