ok i live around a ton of amish ppl and have some amish friends and i every time i ask this they dont answer. ok here it goes...why dont you ever see any handicapped amish ppl no one knows this around but are you tellin me there genes are that perfect? now they gotta be doin somethin with the crippled ones and i hate to think of it
2007-05-23 16:36:46 · 14 answers · asked by greenman 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
ok if you think its stupid then dont answer simple..and ive been around the real amish ppl all my life so i am friends with a bunch of them cuz theres not really anyone else around and im 20 so its not like i havent tried to figure this out on my own.
2007-05-23 16:47:59 · update #1
omg. i'd like to know too.
2007-05-23 16:39:40 · answer #1 · answered by poisonberries 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I grew up in a farming community where half the farmers were Amish. I still live there and still have Amish neighbors. I have yet to see or hear about any of them shunning their children unless the child grows up and leaves the Amish community....which isn't any more harsh then what most non-Amish parents do to their kids nowadays. If you witnessed first hand how happy they are with their lifestyle you wouldn't question it. They are more equipped to deal with harsh times and a failing economy then you will ever be. And no they do not live in a socialist community. Each family has a telephone and electricity...they just don't have the phone inside the house and don't use the electricity unless it's an emergency. Just because they are a separate community living inside another community doesn't mean they're socialists.
2016-05-21 06:45:29 · answer #2 · answered by lavera 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are crippled amish out there, it's just you never see them for the fact it's hard to get them around, no the genes are not perfect there are a lot of things that run in the amish genes. I should know I have an amish backround and I have heart problems because of my genes, and you have a right to ask anything and no one has the right to call you stupid... chin up hun have a good one
2007-05-23 16:54:34 · answer #3 · answered by julie43824 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You're not a racist, because Amish isn't a race. But anyway I don't think they keep their disabled on display, they're probably contributing what they can to the community. The children that were shot in PA, ( I believe) were taken to a hospital, so they probably get medical care also.
2007-05-23 16:47:26 · answer #4 · answered by briddy29 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Amish fund some homes (communities) that hold their own in institutions, if needed, one of which is in ,,, like upper Michigan and they just tend to take care of their own and actually they are quite concerning and should be respected for how they deal with their own issues and are never pollitically correct.
2007-05-23 16:46:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I lived around and knew many Amish. I knew the retarded ones, too... so I don't know what you're talking about? What part of the country? True Amish or Mennonite?
2007-05-23 16:41:34 · answer #6 · answered by BellaJ_DDils 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I am not Omish and I do not know anything about their culture, but I do not think that it is natural to support the life of someone that has a birth defect serious enough to prevent the child from ever taking care of itself. The constant assistance, feeding, clothing, bathing, and adult diaper changes required, not to mention the mental and emotional exhaustion of the caregivers, is a drain on the family of the defective child as well as society. It is hard enough to care for people who are fighting for themselves with out having to incessantly fight for someone who can not ever contribute to society, especially considering that the defective child's life with always be miserable, it is too grave a waste of resources and effort in a world where there is already a dire dearth of resources and nuture for promising and hopeful children; there are perfectly healthy babies starving to death in this world that deserve those resources instead, babies that would have had the chance to be doctors, engineers, scientists, agriculturists, and leaders!
2007-05-23 16:47:51 · answer #7 · answered by trey 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This from their official web-page (apparently Amish use computers (to sell furniture) -- I didn't know that either):
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Amongst the Amish, the elderly, mentally handicapped and physically handicapped are cared for by family members and members of their Amish community.
2007-05-23 16:48:28 · answer #8 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you seen the movie The Village? Remember there was the blind girl and the 'special' guy she was friends with? They were both disabled but they chilled in the colony or whatever same as everyone else. The special guy was just more taken care of.
2007-05-23 16:57:09 · answer #9 · answered by Angelacia baybeeeeee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They take care of their own at home. The society they live in allows them to all help each other. If anyone is too weak, they find something suitable to be done by that person. This makes them all able to fit into the lifestyle they have chosen. Nobody is harmed if they aren't perfectly healthy. Love does wonders.
2007-05-23 16:46:00 · answer #10 · answered by PatsyAnn 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
What, exactly do you think they're doing with them? Of course there are disabled Amish. If you don't live among the Amish and only see them occasionally, I think it would be hard to judge who is in their communities. This sounds like a silly troll question. You can't be that stupid.
2007-05-23 16:41:16 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋