Ignoring the obvious conversation about downs, a story:
A friend of mine when we were roughly 20ish had a pregnant dog, and needed to go out of town. Asked me to watch the dog in case she had the puppies. I agreed. She then became very serious about complications in labor, and I told her not to worry, I had the vet’s number, and dog’s generally have an easier time of it than people. She kept going on about making sure she would be alright, and after listening to her for several minutes, it became clear she did not understand what would be happening, and was concerned there was a chance one of the babies would get stuck in the dog’s butt. Because she genuinely thought sometimes babies can come out the butt if they get lost in there.
Actual good sex education is so important.
If she be like that I’m gonna guess she’d still have trouble feeding one positive pregnancy test.
I usually just throw them out.
The joke would work fine as Post Traumatic Dumb Shit, I think. I bet there’s other better ways to construct it too, if you don’t think that scans.
That’s if you don’t want to be buried in ableism accusations when you use it, which are, imo, getting in the way of this fine little meme.
It loses the association with “unfortunate things that happen in your head” problems, but Downs and PTSD are different categories of things anyway. Inherited vs inflicted, permanent vs temporary, etc. Doesn’t quite work.
People these days are too knowledgeable not to have that part screw with their ability to laugh at the joke, even if they understand it’s not malicious at all.
My at a glance understanding of the joke is that the… young boy character? does not understand the words he’s using. Not fully, anyway. Bit if a bone apple teeth situation.
Which is to say, I don’t think it scans. Dumb shit sounds to me like a school boy dunk and not confusion. I think different D and S medical terms could work pretty well, though.
can we pls stop shitting on disabled people. pls
just call her “dumb” or sth, no need to call her “down syndrome”
I won’t restrict who gets to be involved in humor regardless of their role.
Its funny, but we got to stop making fun of disabled people
but the joke isn’t even about Down’s Syndrome, it’s about this kid being an idiot
And that almost makes it worse. The joke works without it, why add a Down Syndrome punchline at the end? If it’s not about it, why bring it up in the first place?
because the bottom text is something an actual dumb kid said, demonstrating that he had no idea what PTSD is, or Down’s Syndrome for that matter
Everyone should be allowed to participate in humor. Whether that be as the hero or the fool of the joke. Or in this case a tertiary character.
