Thank you for listening ☺️ I just want to make a small correction though. I am not speaking about my genetics, and I am against eugenics. I believe disabled people have every right to exist in the world, and a lot of the burden and hardship of disability comes societal and economic circumstances. My experiences tell me that the social model of disability largely rings true. Plenty of people with genetic illnesses/disability makes excellent parents and live full, valuable and beautiful lives, and their disability hinders them in no way from being fantastic parents. I just have evaluated my own abilities and realised it would be unfair to a kid. People can have the exact same diagnosis as me and have much more day to day function, or a social network/economic ability to pay for help that would pick up the slack. People with no disabilities can still reproduce for selfish reasons and be selfish parents, if they do it out of obligation or to sate some emotional need of their own instead of a true wish to care and tend to a person (see plenty of people damaged from being raised by narcissists, or kids from fundemental families that breed to raise an army for christ instead out of love for the individual child). Disability can be a reason, but it's one of many. My own illnesses are not from because of genetics, just rotten luck unfortunately! I developed my rheumatoid arthritis after a bad stomach infection at 12 as an autoimmune reaction, and similarly, the Addison's developed in 2017 as either another autoimmune reaction or damage from the arthritis meds I was taking at the time (the doctors are unsure). But I have no genetic markers or congenital versions of either disease. I was "lucky" enough that either illness appeared before I became a mother, which made me able to choose. I have nothing but sympathy for mothers who struggle with illnesses or disabilities (which can appear at any time in our lives by factors entirely out of our control) while providing for, and loving their kids who are already here. I only sideeye and question the motivations of people who continue to reproduce while already struggling. I do so with rich people as well, who decide to have a gaggle of kids just because it's tied to their ego and then have nannies take care of them. Either is neglect. Each kid is an individual who deserves to be brought into the world appreciated and loved and cared for as the unique beings they are, not to lift some emotional need or biological imperative from their parents. So I wish everybody would look hard and long at themselves and their own motivations and abilities for caring and providing before they reproduce ❤️