Why tomorrow many people will wear two socks of different colors?

"I wear them differently because we are the same." The motto of the campaign organized a few years ago in the world

World Day of Down Syndrome

He proposes to use striking lows from different pairs in order to better raise awareness of the dignity of people with intellectual disabilities.

With slogans such as "My son can too", families and private institutions also seek to eliminate prejudices. Since 2011, March 21 is the World Day of Down Syndrome, a type of disability explained by the existence of an additional chromosome in pair 21.

The Favaloro Foundation has shown a visual representation of a karyotype, or map of chromosomes, where everyone seems to have the form of a media, from which the campaign begins. At the same time as the image, the foundation explained: "Pair 21, which is not such but a group of three chromosomes, is where trisomy 21 or the syndrome occurs. from Down ".

Down syndrome is a genetic variation of the man whereby a person presents 47 chromosomes on his chromosomal map instead of 46. We invite you to wear a different pair of socks to celebrate diversity, they said at in the countryside. .

Recently, a group of parents of people with Down syndrome put together an emotional video that went viral. They took ten prejudices about people with the syndrome and slaughtered them with particular stories and examples of life. "Down syndrome is not what I am, that's what I have," is the motto.

With an invitation to change their look, parents end with the phrase "My son can too". Aware that these prejudices, both struggling to destroy, affect the integration of their children into society. Tomorrow, they will all wear socks of different colors.