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Anyone watch "Monica & David" documentary?
I watched this last night. It's a documentary about a couple with Down's syndrome who wanted to get married. Her parents threw them a large lavish wedding and then built them a suite in their remodeled condo. It was touching and very poignant and also a bit heartbreaking because Monica wants a baby more than anything and her parents don't think that is a good idea. They are fairly high-functioning but still face quite a few challenges.
If you can catch a rerun I would highly recommend checking it out.
Here is the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su78LXwMJtY
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Re: Anyone watch "Monica & David" documentary?
i haven't seen this but i would love to. my ex FI has a brother that has high functioning downs and he has been perpetually engaged to his fiancee who also has downs but is not as high functioning.
they both live with my ex's mom in separate rooms but also REALLY want to be married and have kids. it's sort of cute and sort of terrifying. they can't keep their hands off each other in the car so who the hell knows what they do when left to their own devices. i mean, the boy almost burned their house down because he left something on the stove and it melted the handle of the pot which eventually started on fire... and that is only one of MANY similar stories. anyway... the idea of them having a kid? they can barely care for themselves.
i can only imagine how heartbreaking it is for a parent to want to help your child achieve everything they want to but then have to put limits on them for their own safety and that of potential offspring.
Exactly. So tough.
Monica's mom did say something about being responsible for her 35-year-old daughter's contraceptives...that's an interesting situation to be in.
This couple was VERY kissy/huggy. It was sweet but also a bit much at times. They appeared to understand marriage and its permanence but you wonder how much they really grasp about what it means.
The most heartbreaking part was hearing Monica read a letter she wrote to her birth father (who left when she was 2). It looked like a child wrote the letter and it was so sad. "You make me cry. I hate you."
No but the description reminds me of that Juliette Lewis movie where she and her mentally disabled boyfriend got married. Obviously not the same, but now I want to watch that movie.
Judging
see, Katie (that's the girl's name) has crappy parents too. i can't remember how she and JT (the boy) met but Katie's parents used to bring her over to play with JT when they were younger. eventually, her family literally just didn't pick her up. for a while they would send money but i guess eventually, even that stopped. they basically abandoned her and made her my ex FI's mom's issue. unbelievable. people can be such jerks.
HBO I think?