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Interview with James' parents 01
 
What is James like as a person?
 

All images of James courtesy of the Wellcome Trust Medical Photographic LibraryFather: A typical little boy we think. Completely different to his sister.

Mother: A typical toddler boy. He hammers things and we all sort of...

Father: Yes you give him a hammer he'll hammer, you give him a drill he'll drill.

Mother: He loves football.

Father: Trucks, planes, lorries, anything like that is excitable.

Mother: He's a sweet and affectionate little boy I think, he's a little bit more... a little bit quieter than his sister.

Father: He likes to hug people. The consultant called him 'a chirpy little boy' and that was six months ago and that's how I view him anyhow.

 
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Does he seem to be developing normally?
  All images of James courtesy of the Wellcome Trust Medical Photographic Library

Mother: He goes to a local toddler group and sort of you compare with other children his own age and he's I would say pretty much the same as any ordinary little child his age.

 
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Have you faced any problems so far?
 

All images of James courtesy of the Wellcome Trust Medical Photographic LibraryFather: There's lots of, loads of websites and things like that that we went on to see about the problem and there's one, an American guy, who said that they're not Klinefelter's syndrome  people, they're XXY males and they may have a load of traits, learning difficulties, late speech, muscle tone, height, breast tissue, stuff like that and he saw them as if they develop all those traits they can be classed as a Klinefelter's syndrome boy or man I suppose. But some of them might not get any of those. One of the only things they are guaranteed to be is infertile, and they're not even guaranteed even that. Very, very probably they're going to be infertile. So at the moment you look at him and he acts like a little boy, and that's it. He's no different. You'll probably meet him when he wakes up and he'll come down, he'll be shy, he'll go and play with his Black and Decker Workmate and that'll be it, there's no difference. Absolutely none.

 
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How did you get the diagnosis?
  All images of James courtesy of the Wellcome Trust Medical Photographic Library

Mother: We decided that we didn't want to have any of the blood tests because we did have them with our daughter and she came out as potentially Downs which she isn't so we sort of we thought right, we won't do that, so we had a scan and then we had a low lying placenta so we had to go back for a late scan and at that stage they pointed out there was some echogenic bowel activity which they said could be appointed towards either cystic fibrosis or Downs, and then we had genetic tests when he was born, and so we were waiting, we were expecting either cystic fibrosis or Downs. And we came back with this and we'd never heard of it before and we just thought, we were just relieved that it wasn't cystic fibrosis and that was our real response wasn't it.

 
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