Why do people with Down Syndrome have that same “look” to them?
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Let’s say you are building a house and you have gone to buy supplies but somehow you accidentally print two copies of the list of doors.
You buy double the doors you need, because you followed the list. No takebacks, you just have to figure out how to use double the amount doors. The room layout is the same- you aren’t making more rooms or even doorways, but you have to do something with them otherwise you are just going to be tripping over a giant pile of doors in the living room.
Maybe you use one door as a countertop. Ok, that was useful (There are some conditions that people with down syndrome don’t get). We finally just start mounting doors everywhere until all the extra doors are used up, so we might have three doors in a bedroom and only one of them goes anywhere. This makes things confusing- every time you go out of a room, you have to pick the right door, and this confusion slows you down a little and makes your house look kinda weird – every room has several nonfunctional doors.
Down syndrome is the same – an extra copy of a chromosome means the body is constantly following two instructions instead of one. This changes how the body is formed and how the pieces work together. Since Down syndrome is very common (about 1/700 births), you see many of the same physical distinctions that come from having that particular extra instruction.
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