As someone who has a relative with Down Syndrome, I almost downvoted this after listening to the first few minutes, but he pulled it back together by the end.

>> ^SDGundamX:

As someone who has a relative with Down Syndrome, I almost downvoted this after listening to the first few minutes, but he pulled it back together by the end.


As someone who has worked with a few teenagers with Down's, I felt his pain from the start! Just like when an old person starts nattering away at you when you're really not in the mood, but you don't want to be horrible. With someone with disabilities, they can be even more annoying because often they can't take obvious social cues. I'm not being mean, just realistic, we can't always be in the mood.

it's down syndrome, not down's syndrome.

>> ^solecist:

it's down syndrome, not down's syndrome.


In the UK we call it Down's.

man, first it was your pronunciation of the word "herb", and now this? you guys got everything backwards!

@alien_concept

It was the way he was telling the story, as if somehow this kid had somehow intentionally inconvenienced him by having Down Syndrome, that caused me to almost downvote. He clearly had a lot of preconceptions about people with Down Syndrome and the upvote came because he realized at the end that everyone else on the train was ignoring the kid because they had those same preconceptions. He also realized he had probably made the kid's day by being nice to him, and clearly he got as much out of it as the kid did.

Sure, I get people may not be in the mood to engage with lonely elderly folks or kids with special needs. But I also don't think it's really fair to treat someone poorly just because you're in a bad mood. He did the right thing, here, and that's why the vid gets the upvote.