Essay 3: Argumentative

Let Me Grow
Why should some people not have the right to grow and develop like they were meant to? A recent procedure done with disabled people is taking away the right of them to grow and develop how they are suppose to. This procedure is really new and has not been used very much. The procedure is to inject the body of a disabled child with hormones and drugs that make them stop growing and developing. When this is done to a female child they also use drugs to keep her from becoming a woman. The young girl will not be able to grow and develop into a mature woman.
This topic is being debated on whether it is right or wrong to do this to a child who has no idea what will happen to them. These poor children will be the size of a young child for their whole lives. People will constantly think that they are younger than what they really are. This could become annoying for them. Their stunted development will cause them to get treated and lookeddown upon as a child for their whole life. Not many middle aged adults can say that they would like people to treat them as if they were six years old. It would be degrading to do this to someone, so why should it be ok for this to happen to a children suffering from a disability. People with disabilities often get treated differently and talked to as a child even when it is clear to see that they are obviously an adult. Why should this have to happen to them even more, because their guardian choose to stunt their growth as a child to make it “easier” for them.
The point that is argued for this procedure is that by stunting the child’s growth it would be easier to care for them. It is true that it would be easier to care for a smaller person in certain ways. It would be easier to move them around and easier to help them with daily tasks. This is true, but it is not very hard to do these things with normal sized adults. There are certain ways for helping taller and larger people. The people caring for these disabled people need to have the training to do these things and once they know how it is actually quite easy. For some things, it would actually be easier to do them on a regular sized person. Things such as having them eat at a table, sit in a chair, and even bathing depending on the situation.
Disabled people should not have to deal with another thing that sets them apart from others especially when it is something that does not need to be done. They put up with a lot of out casting and being stared at because of their disabilities alone. They do not need to have another thing added to the list.