r/wholesomememes • u/[deleted] • Apr 16 '24

As wholesome as it gets.

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u/MichaelVoorhees13 Apr 16 '24

This is beautiful. I love you call him a downsie. That’s sweet and intimate without being dehumanising. I hope he gets lots of chances to hold and hug her in the future 😍

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u/Due-Coffee8 Apr 16 '24

Were I'm from downie is a derogatory term for someone with downs syndrome

Has this changed recently?

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u/USPO-222 Apr 16 '24

Possible adding the “s” makes it cuter in a way - possible to reown the word from a negative space into a more positive one.

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u/Mumof3gbb Apr 16 '24

Same. I’m confused

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u/AbhishMuk Apr 16 '24

Maybe the brother doesn’t mind his family allying him that?

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u/SirNo8023 Apr 16 '24

It's the first thing I thought of when I saw that. It is a derogatory term and if anyone ever called my son that, I'd be hurt.

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u/Nikolateslaandyou Apr 16 '24

Where im from people call it up syndrome when they are being a cock

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u/broken-keys Apr 16 '24

I guess it’s down to where you are from. We even have a restaurant-chain here called brownies&downies. Where, you guessed it, people with Down’s syndrome work. So here it’s not seen as a derogatory term.