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How do people get to be born mentally challenged when the parents are not? the parents are normal with no sign of mental problems run in the family.

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Dr. Lynne Weixel answered

Specializes in Clinical Psychology

We are complex: You don't identify the type of mental challenges, but generically: there can be pre-natal damage from various maternal diseases, nutritional deficiencies and injury, chemical harm from medication, toxins, alcohol or substance use - peri-natal injury - the effects of childhood nutrition, environmental pollution, social bullying and traumas. Humans are both resilient & fragile - things can go wrong.

Answered 12/10/2016

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