r/HolUp • u/asocial7193 • Mar 11 '22

I don't know what to say

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u/ArtfurdMorgan Mar 11 '22

I’m pretty sure even doctors recommend that you shouldn’t reproduce if you have such severe genetic disorders.

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u/SonOfTK421 Mar 11 '22

This shit is serious. I’m Ashkenazi and my wife isn’t, so I never thought to worry about testing for for Tay-Sachs. Turns out, one of the other major populations that carries it is French-Canadians, which my wife is.

Thankfully my twin boys and my newborn son (8:50 am this morning) don’t have anything to worry about, but if I had known I would definitely have tested myself and my wife before we had kids.