7:00pm August 3, 2013

➸ The Feesh Groper: The human race is going to breed itself to extinction.

In the past 24 hours, I have seen two people wracked with seizures from two different genetic medical conditions. I am not in a human medical field, this was in my own home and the home of my boyfriend.

Consider this a PSA. If you or your lover have a painful condition that could be passed on to…

Why? Because people are more than our conditions. By those standards nobody in my family should have reproduced. Because you’re basically saying is better never to have existed then to have chronic diseases or pain. Like all the is to our life is suffering and that’s the only factor that should come into play when deciding whether to bring us into the world.

Pretty much everyone in my family has a disability, or chronic pain, or chronic illness, or all three. You’re saying if we’d known, then my grandparents shouldn’t have existed, my parents shouldn’t have existed, and I shouldn’t have existed. But all of us are DAMN GLAD WE EXIST.

You can’t base whether someone should come into existence in just one trait like that. Our lives are more than just suffering. You can’t predict whether you will bring into the world a child with a severe illness who loves life, or a healthy child who hates life. It’s better not to base your decisions on one attribute like that.

And that’s why people are upset. Because you’re condemning people who do nothing wrong. Bringing a child into the world is not wrong no matter your genetics. There are kids who live only five years ago love every moment of their life, and kids who live to eighty only wishing it would be over. It’s a personal decision whether to have kids, and by judging people so harshly for bringing another life into the world you’re intruding on that decision. Your disclaimers don’t make it better. They just excuse people who didn’t know. You’re still judging people who did know. And people like my parents who would still have had us if they’d known.

Personally I am glad that my parents would have chosen to have me. My diseases don’t define me or whether I should have existed or not and I think that’s a really twisted way to view people, reducing a very big and complex thing like a person down to a single trait and making your decisions based only on that trait.
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