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In reply to the discussion: Mother wins right to end disabled daughter's life [View all]demigoddess
(6,640 posts)who spends a lot of time hitting herself and screaming because she is non verbal and cannot tell us if it hurts some place. We just went through two weeks of this. Doctors usually just cannot help. She would have to be put under general anesthesia to just run tests. Most kids like her are fed by tubes and I worry she might lose her feeding skills which took years to teach her because I am sure she would rip out a feeding tube or spend her life trying to. She did it at 3 months old. She may be retarded but she is determined to run things, do what she wants to do, there is no bargaining with her because she is mentally less than one year old. When she was 13 or so she would crawl across the room in order to aim her eyeball at the corner of the coffee table. This has nothing to do with anti-vaxxers!!! Walk a mile in our shoes, then talk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!