Hoo boy.

[sylvar]

This article will probably get a few people angry.

It's about a 9-year-old girl with a mental age of about three months.  Her parents have convinced doctors to surgically alter her to keep her a child forever.

Hmm.  Forced eternal childhood... doesn't sound pretty to me.  Though I suppose at least the girl in the real-life case lacks the ability to understand her situation.

Comments

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Not that I agree with the parents, but I can understand them. A 3-month old is totally dependent on you. I was not prepared for what that meant when I became a mom. I can understand them wanting to keep her smaller and more manageable. I'm not sure I buy into them not wanting her to go through adolescence, but I can understand their reasoning. In the end, don't criticize them until you have lived in their shoes. I would shoot myself if I had to take care of a 3-month old indefinitely. I barely managed it with a 18lb 3-month old knowing that it would be over soon.

When you first become a parent, the mother who packs her kids in a car and drives into a lake sounds like a perfectly sane thing to do to.

As for how the kid feels, I doubt she feels anything. A three month old is able to eat, shit, feel pain, and beam a smile at her parent's face. That's really about it.