{"id":12609,"date":"2025-10-29T17:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T17:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/?p=12609"},"modified":"2025-10-29T17:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T17:45:15","slug":"its-funny-we-call-them-special-needs-when-its-their-special-we-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/29\/its-funny-we-call-them-special-needs-when-its-their-special-we-need\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s funny we call THEM special needs, when it\u2019s THEIR SPECIAL we NEED!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>October is National Down Syndrome Month<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Martin Ramirez<\/em><\/p>\n

On November 28, 1995, three doctors\u2014two male and one female\u2014walked into our room and barely came to a stop. As I slowly glance up, the male doctor coldly said, Mr. Ramirez, we believe your son was born with Trisomy 21! He correctly read my face and switched his wording to Down syndrome! Yes, I heard it that loud in my head. I still haven\u2019t truly grasped what he told me from the foot of my wife\u2019s bed, but something deep inside didn\u2019t need to be scared. Holding back tears, I managed to ask what the percentage was that he believed my son had Down? He immediately shot back with an 87% chance. To a man from a man, I knew 87% meant 100%.<\/p>\n

Our journey with Mario in our lives started right there. Being the father of two older sons, Xavy, five years old, and Dominic, three years old, with my just-out-of-high-school sweetheart, Missy. It was already a handful, as we both worked opposite shifts at the United States Postal Service. Little did we know the blessing we had received, disguised as hardship, Mario, would begin showing us life love lessons through his actions, not his words, which I had had trouble learning in any formal or informal training. For example, Mario would default to happiness when I kept defaulting to sadness or anger. It took me a long while to realize he was making a choice and that I, too, had this choice available to me.<\/p>\n

Mario also has what I call a detached mind. Meaning he doesn\u2019t attach value to the outcome of anything or anyone. If you want to come two hours late to his birthday party, you will get the same hug as if you were on time. He has no expectations of you. These lessons came so slowly that it took me 10 years before I decided to start writing some of them down and pen our first book (Living It Up With Down! How My Son Became My Mentor). The book is about Mario\u2019s special that we need.<\/p>\n

Seven billion people on this planet have the next four core needs. Love, Attention, Control, and Excitement. (L.A.C.E). These needs get met in healthy or unhealthy ways, but rest assured, we will meet them according to a mentor of mine back in 2006. She shared how she corrected meeting these four core (L.A.C.E) needs from an unhealthy way to meeting them in a healthy way on an international teleconference and how it took her earnings from $1 million a year to $11 million a year; she got my attention. Right after that, Mario walked by my computer and lovingly tapped my shoulder, and the epiphany hit me. Mario himself meets these four core needs daily and in a healthy way. I need to put that in a book! Just like that, the idea of writing our first book was inspired by Mario\u2019s tap on my shoulder. I wasn\u2019t looking to make millions, but what if I could help thousands by sharing Mario\u2019s secrets?<\/p>\n

Currently, Mario and I can still be found speaking from the stage about book number two (Whose Fault Is IT When You Find Your Purpose), standing side by side, helping advocate for special needs individuals as well as helping typical individuals navigate an increasingly negative world with an endless love supply, with tools to boot. If Mario has taught me one thing, it is that you can\u2019t run out of giving love. It\u2019s not like gasoline. Your love tank can never run dry. He\u2019s also taught me we all came here to earth with a G.I.F.T. (Genius I Fully Trust) born inside of us, and our soul desires to find it.<\/p>\n

P.S. The photo is from graduation day 2014. Mario socially graduated from Maumee and then attended Penta County (he called it college). Although Mario may never have academically been able to meet the state standards to graduate typically, I believe many adults couldn\u2019t emotionally graduate to the level of consciousness Mario operates daily.<\/p>\n

From Mario and me\u2026<\/p>\n

I would like to say we are still\u2026Living It Up With Downs!<\/p>\n

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Es curioso que LOS llamemos necesidades especiales, \u00a1cuando es SU ESPECIALIDAD lo que NECESITAMOS!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Octubre es el Mes Nacional del S\u00edndrome de Down<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Por Martin Ram\u00edrez<\/em><\/p>\n

El 28 de noviembre de 1995, tres m\u00e9dicos \u2014dos hombres y una mujer\u2014 entraron en nuestra habitaci\u00f3n cuando apenas se detuvieron. Mientras levantaban sus cabezas, el m\u00e9dico dijo fr\u00edamente: Sr. Ram\u00edrez, \u00a1creemos que su hijo naci\u00f3 con Trisom\u00eda 21! Interpret\u00f3 correctamente mi expresi\u00f3n y cambi\u00f3 sus palabras a s\u00edndrome de Down. Y s\u00ed, lo escuch\u00e9 as\u00ed de fuerte en mi cabeza. Todav\u00eda no he comprendido del todo lo que me dijo desde los pies de la cama de mi esposa, pero algo en mi interior no ten\u00eda por qu\u00e9 asustarme. Conteniendo las l\u00e1grimas, logr\u00e9 preguntarle qu\u00e9 porcentaje cre\u00eda que mi hijo ten\u00eda s\u00edndrome de Down. Inmediatamente respondi\u00f3 con un 87 % de probabilidad. De un hombre a otro hombre, sab\u00eda que el 87 % significaba el 100 %.<\/p>\n

Nuestro viaje con Mario en nuestras vidas comenz\u00f3 ah\u00ed mismo.<\/p>\n

Ser padre de dos hijos mayores, Xavy, de cinco a\u00f1os, y Dominic, de tres, con mi novia reci\u00e9n salida de la escuela, Missy, ya era un reto, ya que ambos trabaj\u00e1bamos turnos opuestos en el Servicio Postal del Estados Unidos. Poco sab\u00edamos que la bendici\u00f3n que hab\u00edamos recibido, disfrazada de adversidad, Mario, empezar\u00eda a ense\u00f1arnos lecciones de amor a trav\u00e9s de sus acciones, no de sus palabras, algo que me hab\u00eda costado aprender en cualquier formaci\u00f3n formal o informal. Por ejemplo, Mario se sent\u00eda feliz cuando yo siempre me sent\u00eda triste o enfadado. Me llev\u00f3 mucho tiempo darme cuenta de que \u00e9l estaba tomando una decisi\u00f3n y de que yo tambi\u00e9n pod\u00eda elegir.<\/p>\n

Mario tambi\u00e9n tiene lo que yo llamo una mente desapegada. Lo que significa que no le da importancia al resultado de nada ni de nadie. Si quieres llegar dos horas tarde a su fiesta de cumplea\u00f1os, recibir\u00e1s el mismo abrazo que si hubieras llegado a tiempo. No tiene expectativas de ti. Estas lecciones llegaron tan lentamente que me llev\u00f3 10 a\u00f1os decidirme a escribir algunas y escribir nuestro primer libro (\u00a1Viviendo al m\u00e1ximo con la tristeza! C\u00f3mo mi hijo se convirti\u00f3 en mi mentor). El libro se trata de lo especial de Mario que nos hace falta.<\/p>\n

Siete mil millones de personas en este planeta tienen las siguientes cuatro necesidades b\u00e1sicas: Amor, Atenci\u00f3n, Control y Emoci\u00f3n (L.A.C.E.). Estas necesidades se satisfacen de maneras saludables o no, pero tengan la seguridad de que las satisfac\u00e9rsenos seg\u00fan una mentora m\u00eda en 2006. Ella comparti\u00f3 c\u00f3mo corrigi\u00f3 la satisfacci\u00f3n de estas cuatro necesidades b\u00e1sicas (L.A.C.E.) de una manera no saludable a una satisfacci\u00f3n saludable en una teleconferencia internacional y c\u00f3mo elev\u00f3 sus ganancias de $1 mill\u00f3n al a\u00f1o a $11 millones al a\u00f1o; capt\u00f3 mi atenci\u00f3n. Justo despu\u00e9s, Mario pas\u00f3 por mi computadora y me toc\u00f3 el hombro con cari\u00f1o, y la epifan\u00eda me golpe\u00f3. El propio Mario satisface estas cuatro necesidades b\u00e1sicas a diario y de manera saludable. \u00a1Necesito escribir eso en un libro! As\u00ed, la idea de escribir nuestro primer libro surgi\u00f3 de la palmadita que Mario me dio en el hombro. No buscaba ganar millones, pero \u00bfsi pudiera ayudar a miles compartiendo los secretos de Mario?<\/p>\n

Actualmente, a Mario y a m\u00ed todav\u00eda nos pueden encontrar hablando de un segundo libro (\u00bfDe Qui\u00e9n es la Culpa Cuando Encuentras tu Prop\u00f3sito?), a lado a lado, ayudando a defender a personas con necesidades especiales y a personas comunes a navegar en un mundo cada vez m\u00e1s negativo con un amor inagotable, y con herramientas para ello. Si algo me ha ense\u00f1ado Mario, es que nunca se acaba el amor. No es como la gasolina. El tanque de amor nunca se agota. Tambi\u00e9n me ha ense\u00f1ado que todos venimos a la tierra con un G.I.F.T. (genio que conf\u00edo plenamente) que nace dentro de nosotros, y que nuestra alma anhela encontrarlo.<\/p>\n

P.S. La foto es del d\u00eda de graduaci\u00f3n de 2014. Mario se gradu\u00f3 de Maumee y luego asisti\u00f3 al Condado de Penta (\u00e9l le llama la universidad). Aunque Mario quiz\u00e1s nunca haya alcanzado acad\u00e9micamente los est\u00e1ndares estatales para graduarse, creo que muchos adultos no podr\u00edan alcanzar emocionalmente el nivel de consciencia que Mario alcanza a diario.<\/p>\n

De Mario y de m\u00ed\u2026<\/p>\n

Quiero decir que seguimos\u2026 \u00a1Disfrutando de la vida con Downs!<\/p>\n

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