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Aswad -> RE: A "Retard" Answers Ann Coulter (10/24/2012 10:10:09 PM)
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It happens.
Someone with common Down's will have between half and two thirds the intellectual capacity they otherwise would, meaning that at age 27, the adult peak of development, they have a capacity equivalent to an adolescent. It decays somewhat faster for them than for the rest of us from that age onward, meaning it is exceedingly rare for someone with common Down's to ever reach adulthood intellectually.
Someone with the uncommon variant, where only half the cells are trisomal, may have up to their normal intelligence level at most, though it isn't unusual for even those to be slower than a neurotypical individual with the same intelligence level (speed and capacity are crucially not the same), IME. Thus, we do have a sort of high functioning category of Down's people, where unfortunately a number are just smart enough to grasp the extent of their disability, which a lot of the regular Down's people do not, again IME.
This guy is what happens when the next Einstein gets saddled with Down's.
Kind of sad, really, to think of what he might have been.
IWYW,
— Aswad.
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