It's International Down's Syndrome Awareness day!

"Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan'" (otto-the-croatian)
03/21/2018 at 05:37 • Filed to: lotsofsocks, downs syndrome awareness

To raise awareness wear 2 different and colorful socks. I like this, it’s a very punk-rock way of paying tribute. Much better than pins or badges.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan'
03/21/2018 at 05:45

wasn’t aware of it.

Over at my Bosnian neighbors there’s only 2 Down’s syndrome affected people in the whole country who are hired and working. 2.

So it’s a bigger issue here I guess.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan'
03/21/2018 at 05:55

normally the local media will promote stuff like that here. but there’s been nothing at all.

considering there’s plenty of people with down syndrome here in Oz

does it count if im wearing mismatched colourfull socks accidentally?

(getting dressed before coffee is hard)

TIL millions of preteen girls have been running their own Down Syndrome awareness thing every day.

Sure, just play it off cool.

CalzoneGolem > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan'
03/21/2018 at 07:58

I like the twine shoelace / no lace combo.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > CalzoneGolem
03/21/2018 at 08:01

I won’t lie: I only noticed the laces until I read the description.

Teh Penguin of Doom > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan'
03/27/2018 at 14:09

Hey one thing to be aware of is it’s more correct to say Down Syndrome rather than Down’s Syndrome.

By convention, we use the possessive only with the name of a person who had the syndrome. Down documented it, but he wasn’t himself affected by it.

Or you can avoid the whole Down stigma and just call it Trisomy 21.

Oh man, I used that first but then googled it to make sure and it turns out Google was wrong.