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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Are you unconditionally accepting of others? - repost from myspace
So I am watching Private Practice right (yup, I know I watch way too much TV now!) and they have a couple that had a baby with male and female genitalia. At first the couple wants to change it to a boy, then the mom says no the days says yes. The mom feels you need to let the child grow up to see what it will be since its only a 30% chance the baby will mentally be a boy.
I got to thinking what a stupid story line. Who would break up a marriage over something wrong with your own baby. Could you really walk out on your life because you feel your baby will go through life and be a freak. Yet I know most of these story lines are based on something that has actually happened IRL.
When I was pregnant with my last baby, we had a billion tests done. More then I normally have being high risk since I was also over 35 years old. There got to a point where they wanted to do an amneo, we had to see therapists and all sorts of more tests and geneology crap incase something was wrong with the baby. I mean hours and hours of this and so many people
Over an hour into one meeting with a shrink and the doctor, we were asked something stupid like if we wanted to terminate if the baby had downs syndrome or something else. My hubby and I looked at each other and said enough is enough. That's enough testing. We had 3 other children which we prayed for. I didndt care if they had 4 heads and 9 arms, God gave them to me to raise and that's what I was going to do. I was doing the same with this one. At that point they stopped all tests, the shrink was almost in tears and they wished us well with our pregnancy.
My kids and I talk often about things in life. My teen goes to school with gays, Trans and what not. They have a cousin that's bisexual and other friends that I don't believe any label covers. I tell them that no matter what they grow up to be, or even if they decide after being married with 5 kids they feel they were born gay, I would love them no matter what. I really felt all parents had these talks and felt the same way
I am the same with my kids, family, friends or anyone in life. I have family that's on drugs I treat no different then the others. Ok, I might make sure I don't have cash lying around to temp them. If you know where you stand with someone, you know what to do. I just don't get how anyone could not be tolerant of another human being these days. Not when you see all sorts of things on discovery channel, Dr Phil and what not.
Are you tolerant of others? Do you love unconditionally? If your child came to you today and said I am gay would you look at them differently? If your best friend came to you and said that they were a hermaphadyte from birth and never told you, would you feel different towards them? I hope not. As much as we go through and expect people to love and accept us, understand us or not, I sure hope you are doing the same to those in your life. EVERYONE in your life
and we always will!
--- Live your life in such a way that when your feet hit the floor in the morning, Satan shudders and says, "Oh shit...she's awake!"
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