By- Geete Moirangthem
I have known happiness but I feel as if I can taste other people’s happiness much more strongly, than I feel. Nobody knows them, nobody knows the real them. Nobody knows the thought that go through their head.
Everyone is different and every individual have their own taste. Even the environment and our society is the main factor that can affect the behavior of personality. Most of the parents don’t want their children having friends with who have chromosome abnormality .But do these personality affecting the behavior of person? While the parents who have their child with chromosome abnormality, they thought their child are disability, and they don’t want their child to brought up nor raise up in our society… If a women first born is a daughter neither a child with chromosome abnormality adu oitaradi migi afabata khatlakpada mama do changhangano pot puhangano, jatra puhangano.
Chromosome? Our body is made up of cells, in the middle of each cells is a nucleus and inside of the nucleus are called chromosome. The nucleus contain chromosome. Chrosome is a thread like structure made up of protein and DNA. DNA [Deoxyribonucleic acid] is the responsible for everything in our body including eye colour, motor development, organ development etc.
Figure-chromosome
There are 23 pair of chromosome in our body, so the total number of chromosome is 46. The 23 pair of chromosome, the first 22 pair of chromosome are called autosome and here remain one pair of chromosome is called sex chromosome. If a baby is born as a girl so she got { XX} chromosome from her mother and father while a baby is born as a boy , so he got { XY } chromosome from his mother and father. Chromosomal abnormality occur when a fetus has either the incorrect number of chromosome it may be missing, extraor irregular portion. It can be catagorised as numerical or structural. Numerical abnormalities occur missing or extra to the normal pair, while structural abnormalities are when the part of chromosome is missing or extra switched to the another chromosome. Some example of chromosomal abnormalities include Down syndrome, Turner syndrome, triple { xxx} syndrome, klinfelter syndrome etc.
Triple xxx chromosome- a female is born with an one extra copy of X Chromosome
Klinfelter syndrome or [ xxy} syndrome-a male is born with an one extra copy of X chromosome.
Turner syndrome-a female is born with only one X chromosome. In this condition one of the sex X chromosome is missing.
The male sex has one X and one Y chromosome while the female sex has two X Chromosome. There are 23 pair of chromosome..for a total of 46. Half of the chromosome come from the ovum or egg [ mother], and half of the chromosome come from the sperm [ father]. So these are the sex chromosome, the X chromosome from the egg [ mother ] and the Y chromosome from the sperm [ father].
Down syndrome- it can be occur in both male and female. It’s a condition that a baby is born with an entire or partial extra copy of chromosome no. 21. Resulting in three copies, instead of two copies
Figure- extra copy in chromosome no. 21s
Symptoms of the chromosomal anomalies are depend on their types but these are the common symptoms flattened facial, drooping eyelids, learning problems,intellectual disability and problem with structure like heart. There is no treatment for chromosomal abnormalities. However counseling, medicine, educational support to their parents, mentally support to the individual who occur from chromosomal abnormalities are given.
If you have been the victim or disability discrimination or being targeted for discrimination because of appereance or a health condition, pls be strong and stand up for yourself, you are beautiful.We are all human and we have the same rights. No matter who we are, as a human we all have the same rights.
The discrimination is not only harmful, it’s a unlawful. Its not a crime to have disability nor a person with chromosomal abnormality.
My mama and baba taught me to love everyone and spread kindness to our society, I posses a big heart to love more and forgive easily and I have seen some children with chromosome anomalies .
I share my concept for parent’s, grandparents and specially educational teachers for support to give insight on what they are going through, they may be feel like they are alone. Let’s promise. I promise. You and me? We are never ever alone.
They are human being with all the same feelings and emotion like us, they are bright, they are special and unique too. The right of mine should be the right of every individual. When we look at a person with chromosomal anomalies, we see a person, not his/her appeareance. we all have different skills, hobbies,and weakness that make us who we are…., we knew everyone is beautiful and unique in their own way….. I want the world to understand that every human being with special need are special.
So, let’s spread the love….and be the part of change.
The writer is a Post Graduate student of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Science Bangalore
