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A woman tells News 1130 in Vancouver, B.C. that Chris Benoit's son Daniel had a condition called Fragile X syndrome. Wikipedia describes the symptoms:
Aside from intellectual disability (mental retardation), prominent characteristics of the syndrome include an elongated face, large or protruding ears, flat feet, larger testicals in men (macroorchidism), and low muscle tone. Behavioral characteristics may include stereotypic movements (e.g., hand-flapping) and atypical social development, particularly shyness and limited eye contact. Some individuals with the fragile X syndrome also meet the diagnostic criteria for autism. While full mutation males tend to present with severe intellectual disability, the symptomology of full mutation females runs the gamut of minimally affected to severe intellectual disability, which may explain why females are underdiagnosed relative to males.
The woman interviewed for the News 1130 story says her family was in contact with the Benoits, but they didn't want to go public with the disease and chose to keep things low profile. She added that families can be torn apart by the disease because it's very difficult to find help and support. She said, "You as a parent have to go out there and find what's available and it's not easy --they don't tell you."
http://www.news1130.com/news/topsto...626_212836_4500
W.K. Analysis: This may explain why Daniel was taking growth hormone injections. It also may shed light onto why Chris didn't want someone else raising his son and made the fateful decision to kill him. As irrrational and twisted as it may sound, he may have felt he was saving his son from the double-blow of losing his parents through a murder-suicide and being subject to being raised by people who didn't understand or care for his condition. While in no way justifying his actions, the belief that his son was in for a difficult life as it was, and now one without his parents, might have been Benoit's self-justification for his heinous act.
I believe that nobody probably agonized over this more than chris. Forget the killing of wife, nobody bothers that OJ did it, how many other people are worshipped and are violent to their spouses. The biggest thing is that of his son. If that is true that he had that condition, chris must've spent every minute thinking about what to do. What would we do in this situation? who knows. I don't care what people say, if you're actually in the situation you may do the same as what he did. From all accounts he smothered him, which was probably the most non-painful way to do it. he wasn't violent to him, it was almost his best attempt at making it dignified.
Rather than taking the ripped bag or abercrombie way of "making laughs out of tragedy" I think we need to think here. The poor lad suffered but what would it be to how his life would've been after his mum was dead & dad knew he wouldn't be around for him. If we have pets who have terminal illnesses, we often do the kindest thing for them, people are more & more in support of euthanasia. In retrospect which would be the best for the kid? everyone will have opinions but chris, his father, had one and acted on it. Rather than trying to hate him for something which cannot have been an easy thing to do, I think we should all allow his family & friends the dignity of being allowed to mourn without having to have loads of bullshit about it everyone on the net. Believe me, as someone who had to have his beloved dog put to sleep out of kindness rather than allowing him to suffer a few months ago, it is not an easy decision and the pure hate benoit must've had for himself prior to him hanging himself would be more than enough punishment for him. In my case, I spent months grieving, I lost friends because I was short with them & said things i shouldn't have, but I made the choice based on the fact that the treatments if they worked in the case had a very very low chance of changing his life for the better.
My final thoughts are respect for what chris benoit did in the ring, and the amount of people who he knew & who idolised him & who respected him will feel this, however for what he did I feel nothing but sadness. I don't hate him for it, I can't, no matter how much I want to. peace guys/gals.
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