What are your thoughts on genetic disorders?

What do you mean? Are you asking whether a pregnancy should be terminated if a genetic disorder is detected? That's up to the parents. Children born with genetic disorders need care and assistance to enable them to lead fulfilling lives. That's what I think.

Umm....they're....genetic??

I know I am going to get blasted for this because people don't like to hear the truth. But as a person who has went through hell and back from several disorders with a strong genetic basis, I personally believe that people with certain disorders and/or multiple genetic problems should not have biological children. Life is difficult as it is....why make things worse?

Get to know the person and his/her family well before you commit to having any children with him/her. Don't have children with someone who has the same problems as your family has or your child will get a double whammy. As you become closer to the person, things will become apparent. That's why I don't believe the parents who croak, "well I didn't know so and so had...". Yeah, you lived in the same house with him and slept with him every night and you didn't know? Sure. If something is not contagious or is not as a result of an accident or lifestyle choices, chances are it is inherited.

I strongly believe that bad genes is why young people today have so many ailments and take some many pills (i.e. inhalers, medicated lotions, sprays, potions, pills for this and that---and i haven't even gotten into the mental illness medications yet).

Until relatively recently in history, infectious diseases were the big killers. Those children who are always wheezing and can't even participate in gym class today would have been the first ones to die when an epidemic of whooping cough swept through the town. They didn't get to make it to reproductive age and pass on their problematic genes. But now, thanks to medicine and technological advances, we have all but conquered infectious diseases. Therefore, the genetically inferior like myself reach reproductive age and continue breeding up little replicas of themselves who grow up and do the same thing (well I am not breeding though).

Why are health insurance rates sky high? Why is Medicaid running out of funding? I'll tell you why...all kinds of inherited diseases from type 1 diabetes to hidradenitis suppurativa and the drugs and treatments from those disorders cost a lot of money. That makes things expensive for the company...and we all pay when the company pays because they jack up rates. The health care situation in this country is ridiculous and I believe that is one of the reasons why. Sure infectious disease treatment in 1905 cost money. But one antibiotic for an infection is a lot cheaper than pills you have to take daily for years and years and years due to a condition that does not go away. With infectious diseases, you get better or you die. That's it.

People may not like what i've said but it is the truth....prevention is worth more than a cure. Be careful who you have children with. The lemmings like to say that I wouldn't be here if my parents had made another choice. The soul is eternal....I would still exist just in a healthier, better looking body.