Last Friday was the big day for Yasmine Berraoui, a student attending a French high school in Casablanca (Morocco). Like thousands of other high school students, the young woman went to look for her bac results. Verdict: she obtained her scientific baccalaureate, physics-chemistry option, with the honorable average of 12.3 / 20 and the mention Assez Bien.
A trivial story? Not so much: Yasmine Berraoui is indeed suffering from Trisomy 21, a genetic pathology that affects on average one in 800 babies, and which often leads to intellectual disability in patients.
Yasmine’s success is all the more impressive given that the young woman has never benefited from preferential treatment in her high school. “Yasmine has integrated the normal school curriculum, says the father of the young woman. She has always had marks that rank her among the good students, around 14/20 on average. But she has worked twice as hard as the others since elementary school, and we gave her support courses. This year, we didn’t have a single weekend with the family, because she was working all the time. The reward, Yasmine’s success is all the more beautiful. “
All hopes are allowed
Yasmine’s dad hopes his daughter’s success will give everyone hope parents of children with Down’s syndrome and will encourage them not to give up. “Very often, parents with Down’s syndrome sink into disaster,” he explains on his blog. However, with effort, all hopes are allowed. “And to add, full of pride:” A disabled child is neither a punishment nor an impossibility to live. It’s just an opportunity to sublimate his parental love. “
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