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

[trunkbutt.livejournal.com]

This doesn't make me angry at all. What the parents are doing will ultimately mean the difference between having to put their daughter into some sort of potentially half-assed group home for vegetables and being able to care for her at home for the remainder of their natural lives.

[trunkbutt.livejournal.com]

I should state, however, that I would never support taking such action against the will of a self-aware individual, no matter how disabled. At the developmental age of a three month old, their daughter does not have the ability to individualize herself. She does not have a sense of physical autonomy.