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Woman Diagnosed with Down's Syndrome at Age 23

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0:00 thank you [Music] finally some good news all right um we got another young mom in Michigan how old is she she's 23. but she's already out of the ████ phase which is good at 23 I really like that you said that no don't ████ already put that in a box and just hold it dear you know Safeguard it hasn't even been 30 seconds so it's a different type of 23. okay that's gonna be the Callback of the day hold that what no take it back to Michigan she's 23. she's always said she has problems with her knees dislocating what how

0:51 yeah I know patellar dude yeah she has what's called meniscus slipperosis surgery mom did it's common very expensive congrats yeah thank you I her shoulder also comes out of socket what the ████ is happening and they just can't figure out man she needs to take some glucosamine she sounds like a ████ old-school GI Joe and someone just kept going like this and twisting the elastic band stretch down shoulder is just like constantly popping out of socket um and also ████ David elsewhere the smile you have when you tell these articles lines that her jaw like she has problems like with the way it moves what the ████ is that she's possessed isn't she no she's not possessed but like she just know like her whole life she's like what is up with my jaw like why is it like that yeah she got TMJ yeah

1:43 it's really really strange and also to top it off her heart rate's always really high what is happening uh yeah she's always just wondered why am I like this why are my knees doing this why is my shoulders she doesn't know she ever been in a car accident no no accidents at all ever yeah that she knows of yeah she has a high heart rate yeah it to me it sounds like a little bit of uh eating a lot of stuff she's actually not obese okay it sounds like she has a disease yeah sounds like something's wrong with her heart okay here just so you know like here's a visual that's her great right she's triple jointed I don't

2:35 know what the body looks like Zoomed In by the way yeah I zoomed in so you don't see the title of the article oh or the shoulder so here's what happens she's like I'm female Pinocchio she's 23. she decides to go get this checked out finally she's like I need to go see what's going on with myself my knees keep getting dislocated uh suggest running her through some very specific checks did they do the like they hit her knees it doesn't work oh yeah it keeps slipping and avoiding it what do you think she's got oh this has got to be some unique autoimmune disease you would think something to do with physical structure like loose ligaments of some sort kind of yeah it can be it can be uh is it a common disease

3:26 actually actually very common yeah trust you huh because I don't know what the there's a term for uh I don't know what the actual term is if like when people are like hyper flexible because there is a theme where it's too flexible like being double jointed close it's close to that people they can do like without practice practicing splits they can do more than splits it's close to that it's it's like a it's kind of a Kamasutra expert in our last life yeah that's what it was but it's different when you got yourself there you know when you're like a Russian ballerina and you can pull a bow and you stress yourself there like you've had control and built the musculature to get yourself there some people are just like um like they're ████ they can just there's talented twist around me I don't know there's it's close to something like that like Jim Carrey I feel like

4:16 you got it kind of on the tip of your head no I was gonna say lupus that's what I was gonna say what is that okay some girls get it so it turns out at age 23 it's not lupus though young mother Ashley was diagnosed with Down Syndrome shut the ████ up down syndromes are known to be flexible she had Down syndrome the whole ████ time wow wait so then when you have Down syndrome you're you you get joints just falling apart Down syndrome symptoms is usually shorter and stockier she's she has what's called Mosaic Down syndrome which is a version of down syndrome where you don't look like you have it but you have it but what are the effects everything but looking like you have it so you have Down syndrome you just don't look down syndrome

5:07 conversations like how does that explain the ████ can we get can we get a refresher course on down syndrome always uh notice that she doesn't she has communication problems she uh she can't she can't really understand humor a lot she she says a lot of offensive things and doesn't realize it she has all the social characteristics for everyone that's simple out there there's always someone that's gonna love you no matter what you know what I'm saying oh there's a lot there's some funny like reels that pass by me where there's some Down syndrome girls with very nice bodies and then they're like calm down if you're down what does your Instagram look like comedy

5:57 it'll pop up it'll be like it'll be like a like a girl like she's like got a nice body and she's dancing clearly Down syndrome right they're like doing cheerleading stuff and then in the comments It's the funniest ████ ever so I'm down if she's down they'll be like down syndrome jokes yeah you know hey comedy comedy baby they're like butt is butt so it turns out out of her six pregnancies three of her kids have had Down syndrome Mosaic down syndrome's regular she got six she has six kids no she's had six pregnancies six pregnancies all of them were miscarriages uh she I think three of the kids were born and and all of them are she lost I think the other three but they but then even the ones that were miscarriages they were diagnosed as having Down syndrome before they were born because we got there's like a test that

6:49 they do for it yeah so I'm a little off for that stuff oh does it cost more yeah you could pay a fee but some people they uh they like it where it's like surprise your baby's down you know some people they don't care about gender reveal or whatever they just go let nature take it you take that test after pregnancy no no during during like but it's still in the beginning I mean after getting pregnant yeah yeah yes yes you just gotta do down payment oh my God it looks so good though it's so good I think your eyebrows can go there he's got Mosaic Down syndrome right now is there something that you want to tell us from the article I want to see what she looks like though I want to see if it's she looks like the pictures you have like the facial characteristics of someone with with Down Syndrome

7:39 really but with Mosaic you just don't show it I don't know you get slippery meniscus yeah it's like you have a lot of weird tricky things with your body that make it really hard to you know but there's like a lot around her daughter so because she has Mosaic it's basically like you have the same uh when someone with Down syndrome's having a baby there's a 50 chance the baby will have Downs three of her kids uh her baby looks Downs for sure it's not okay shoot ass baby by the way I love of course yes here we go hold on it's just the statement double down right now it's just the statement that's all it just caught me off yeah syndrome babies look the ████ cutest they're really cute she's really cute Joe you basically said this is a table and we're like no ████ we know

8:31 but she looks like a platinum albino Beauty Downs okay yeah with the blue ass she's really cute so she has three kids one of them doesn't have it but the other two do but what if the other one was mosaics I I think they they did a test keep an eye on the knees so what happens is they do a chromosome test and if you have an extra one then you have when do they do the chromosome and how do they what usually you want usually you want extras that's that's the test that she did on herself oh I see the doctors recommended doing a chromosome test to see if she might have Mosaic and it turns out she does but then um you know her her one kid does not have uh Downs of any sort I see there's a 50 chance anytime she has a baby that the kid will will take that in Mosaic dude I didn't know that was even I don't even

9:21 know that was okay no clue that it was so crazy so again to review those symptoms as she lived with was her knees would constantly dislocate her arm her shoulder would pop out of socket all the time her jog was crazy uh her heart is always like at a higher rate and then and then combined with all those social difficulties like she can't um she just can't read cues the same way you know you can't understand like nuances but she looks like totally like oh I'm sorry I just pop that out of socket she looks like a you know yeah non-downsy normal girl I was looking for the term and I'm glad you said that you can't tell I wonder what the husband was like just like you know maybe being attracted to her but like not not really getting the social cues from her all the time but still being down oh not down

10:12 ████ down to be in a relationship I mean he might be autistic and they both are just like eh yeah I don't get these jokes you know like who knows Mosaic autistic maybe he got Mosaic too yeah because dudes be like hella socially like unintelligent they're just whatever yeah dudes are dumb you're making it happen dude they're like yo she hot that's all I care about she also has trouble with short-term memory which I didn't know was a thing too yeah but she said so do the rest of us yeah that's true yeah very true yeah yeah she's she's um Ashley wanted to encourage people to get uh what's called genetic testing and that's the way that you figure out if you do have an extra chromosome if you're if anyone's experiencing these same things I see I might have it I might have a couple extra chromosomes a couple extra couple you look like you

11:03 have them my knees are okay she hopes to create a community of Mosaic Down syndrome that's cool super cool oh hell yeah I want to see that show oh

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