Anyhow, now you might understand why- when I saw these:
I went, "Awwwww."
It's so benign- and reeks of TLC!!!!
I'm pretty confident in the fact that if either (or both) of those two above tried to front I could just yell "Watch out! Medicine that looks like Candy!!!!" then turn and run away.
I wish I could say that I found those pictures while browsing ultra hip and/or prestigious web venues like npr.org- but really- I just googled "Dolls with Down Syndrome" and it turned out to be a slam dunk.
What I've learned today is:
How to spot a crappy homemade Down Syndrome doll like this ==>
And how to spot the genuine article.
Most of them have their tongue's sticking out, along with the "trademark" flat bridge nose and almond shaped eyes.
Also, it's not a down syndrome doll without the spaced big toe
And check the soft-sculpt
Down Syndrome dolls
for an embroydered crease
on the back of the hands.
This one's a tough one,
but look closely and you'll agree-
She's down syndromey.====>
These dolls seemed to be geered towards that audience of well do to, well intentioned parents with imaginations exceeding any sort of piagetian theory.
Once while teaching preschool I got punched in the balls by a kid, infront of the whole classroom.
All the kids laughed at me, and the Director of the school huffed when I demanded relief while my pain subsided.
She took that little fucker into her office and "had a nice long talk." Returning him to the classroom she asked "Is there anything else you need?" in a snide tone.
Perhaps an apology?" I replied while I refrained from adjusting my nuts.
"I don't see what good that will do." She then addressed my look of surprised dissapointment in her- with,,"They don't learn empathy until age 7 so it won't mean anything."
Where proggressive parents havn't read enough (boring) books, that bitch had read too many, but that does not negate her point.
Just because a doll is thuroughly retarded does not mean the kid is going to learn anything about compassion or caring for different/special people.
Just because a doll is thuroughly retarded does not mean the kid is going to learn anything about compassion or caring for different/special people.
My mom had the similar intentions when she got me a Black cabage patch doll named Graham Garnette.
And even if COLECO had made their dolls as gratuitously "correct," as one could to fully encompass The African American-
(sans the gang colors flying from Graham's pocket====>)
I don't think it would have done anything to change how I still, sorta find hanging out with black people to be...
kind of a novelty.