This is brilliant! TV by people with learning disabilities, in Bergen, Norway
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@voxofgod the Commonwealth doesn't want the USA, that's not going to happen. Also, I'm kinda of getting the impression you think it's a bit like the EU? Commonwealth is basically just the old British colonies kinda maintaining some cultural (and sometimes head of state) ties after independence. In practice it just means some countries like Canada and Australia still have the UK monarch as a powerless head of state. We don't get freedom of movement like the EU gets. I don't think we even get special visa conditions.
In practical terms, being a member of the Commonwealth means your country gets to take part in the Commonwealth games. And maybe extra diplomatic help in other Commonwealth countries if you don't have an embassy there. Um. That's it afaik 
Btw New Zealand is not disability friendly for immigration. There was a big story a few years ago where a British man was offered a high paying job there and was told he can take his wife and older child, but his disabled daughter was not given residency.
When trying to find the article, I found these:
https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/26/family-denied-visa-daughter-downs-syndrome-9022812/
https://www.liveaction.org/news/new-zealand-denied-residency-teenage-girl-syndrome/
Sky · Girl, 12, denied residency because her autism does not meet 'acceptable standards of health' in New Zealand
Woman With #DownSyndrome Co-Founds Successful #Accessories #Brand
Sunny SkyzWoman With Down Syndrome Co-Founds Successful Accessories BrandIn 2016, friends Emily and Julia turned a challenge into an opportunity by launching Dance Happy Designs — a vibrant accessories brand featuring handmade, screen-printed textiles. What makes this company even more remarkable is that it was co-found
It's hard to believe that I have a 22 year old. It's even harder to believe that she's living with about 75% independence too and that she's really bloomed into it.
In our state, the school district is responsible for the education of a person with disabilities up until their 22nd birthday. On that day, all support gets kicked over to the state. #downSyndrome #disability #parenting
World Down Syndrome Day 2025: "What I've learned (so far) about raising a child with Down syndrome"
https://www.healthing.ca/down-syndrome/world-down-syndrome-day-2025-what-ive-learned-so-far-about-raising-a-child-with-down-syndrome
Healthing.ca · World Down Syndrome Day 2025: What I've learned (so far) about raising a child with Down syndrome
Did you know that today is the UN World Down Syndrome Day?
https://www.worlddownsyndromeday.org
#DownSyndrome #WorldDownSyndromeDay
#ABetterWorldForAll
#ProgressiveNotRegressive
World Down Syndrome Day · Home - World Down Syndrome DayThis is the message that we are asking supporters to share on and around World Down Syndrome Day, 21 March 2025.
Today is the international Down Syndrome day! Because Trisomy 21
I wish they were more integrated with society, because it would benefit both people with Downs and the society. That extra bit of chromosome brings a lot of hilarity, chaos (mostly benign, often unexpected) and new perspectives.
Today is World Down Syndrome Day!
Happy World Down Syndrome Day!
Celebrate with us by wearing crazy or mismatched socks!
Can we just not, we truly are in the worst timeline
People Are Using #AI to Create #Influencers With #DownSyndrome Who Sell Nudes
#Instagram’s unwillingness to #moderate AI-generated content finds a new low.
https://www.404media.co/people-are-using-ai-to-create-influencers-with-down-syndrome-who-sell-nudes/
404 Media · People Are Using AI to Create Influencers With Down Syndrome Who Sell NudesInstagram’s unwillingness to moderate AI-generated content finds a new low.
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That we need to #ImproveOurSupport, especially in cases of #DownSyndrome aka #Trisomy21 is know since the #Neanderthals ... literally: https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jun/26/fossil-of-neanderthal-child-with-downs-syndrome-hints-at-early-humans-compassion
The Guardian · Fossil of Neanderthal child with Down’s syndrome hints at early humans’ compassion
Welt-Down-Syndrom-Tag 2025: Warum behindern Menschen Menschen?
Das Leben ist vielfältig. Und dennoch werden Menschen mit Down-Syndrom sehr häufig an den Rand unserer Gesellschaft gedrängt. Das ist heilbar.
Die Politik trägt zur Behinderung von Menschen bei: Anstatt Inklusion zu ermöglichen, werden Mittel für Projekte gekürzt. Wir müssen endlich aufhören Menschen zu behindern.
#Inklusion #ImproveOurSupportSystems #weltdownsyndromtag #downsyndrom #behinderung #downsyndrom #downsyndrome #dielinke
3/21, it's World #DownSyndrome Day again - and this year we call on all governments to #ImproveOurSupport systems!
Everyone needs support sometimes:
World Down Syndrome Day · 2025 Theme - World Down Syndrome DayThe theme is the message that we are asking supporters to share on and around World Down Syndrome Day, 21 March 2025.
So Coor Down, in cooperation with several other disability organisations, launched a new ad campaign for World Down Syndrome Day 2025.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRIQ80rJKAc
I just want to take a moment to say that it's fucking brilliant. The ad starts with a person with Down syndrome, then is followed by a wheelchair user, a little person, a Deaf person, a blind person, and a prosthesis user, and at the end of the ad, the line-up includes what appears to be a Black autistic person (they're wearing headphones, presumably for sensory reasons) and someone wearing glasses.
This headline literally made me do a double take...
Headline: People Are Using AI to Create Influencers With Down Syndrome Who Sell Nudes
Subtitle: #Instagram’s unwillingness to moderate #AI-generated content finds a new low.
404 Media · People Are Using AI to Create Influencers With Down Syndrome Who Sell NudesInstagram’s unwillingness to moderate AI-generated content finds a new low.
Review: Hamlet, Teatro La Plaza (Lima, Peru), Chicago Shakespeare in partnership with Chicago Latino Theater Alliance: https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/regional/chicago/ch799.html
www.talkinbroadway.comChicago - "Hamlet" - 3/15/25
My son is not speaking yet, but in just the past few weeks he has really started to pick up signing. These are words he knows how to sign for sure: lamp, peas, banana, cow, ant, butterfly, shoes, eat, sleep, pee, brush teeth. Plus about ten songs that he can sing-sign as well. Cracking the code of communication is so cool.
#parenting #DownSyndrome
My $SPOUSE dyed Alice's hair pink today. Alice loves it. She also thinks it's hilarious to call her pinkie-pie. #downSyndrome #hair #dyedhair
So #youtube randomly put one of my shorts in a few searches for #downsyndrome memes, I am assuming because it was stupid and I was acting kind of childish or something in the short. It was about ice cream trucks and #losangeles and how odd it was in winter.
I made another short humorously saying how it insulted me by figuring out I had #mentalhealth issues but getting it wrong.
Now suspiciously the #algorithm has shown it to zero people.
Huh
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Congratulations to all the actors who brought Freeing Teresa to life so vividly. It stars Jackie Blackmore, Lauren Potter, and Dayleigh Nelson, with a supporting cast of Cynthia Potvin, Bill Mackie, Paula Hoffmann, @robcottingham, Sidika Larbes, Geoff Sugiyama, Laurel Bailey, Divina Soriano-Leacock, Justin Smallbridge, and Roshni Kashyap.
#disability
#Downsyndrome
#AuthenticRepresentation
#humanrights
#awards
#memoirs