Ways to Celebrate WDSD 2021

My Monday Blogging group is answering a few questions in the run up to World Down Syndrome Day on 21st March 2021.

Q. Ways your friends can celebrate World Down Syndrome Day

Wear odd socks on Sunday 21st March (put it in your diary!) This is Coraline in hers on the day two years ago.

It is #wdsd2021 on Sunday 21st March and Down’s Syndrome Awareness Week next week in the run up to it from 15th-21st March 2021. Last year Coraline’s preschool asked the children to wear odd socks for the week and to talk about them during circle time. Unfortunately Coraline wasn’t in school to see it, as she had a fever and we had to isolate off school that week according to the government’s rules, and then the week after that all schools closed in the lockdown.

The idea is your odd socks will spark up a conversation when someone asks you about them. That will be the challenge this year; to actually see people on Sunday 21st so they can admire them! You can tag us in a photo of you wearing them, in a scenic spot or round the house. Perhaps you can get them onto a zoom call.

Some people say chromosomes look a bit like pairs of socks. People with Down’s syndrome have an extra ‘sock’ or chromosome.

The date, 21.3, signifies the three copies of chromosome 21 that all people with Down's syndrome have. This is why Down's Syndrome is also known as Trisomy 21.

The #LotsOfSocks campaign helps spread awareness each year. The global theme of WDSD 2021 is #connect.