How do you interact with people with Down's Syndrome?

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Am treat DSers as anyone else-with equal respect.
They are probably the best group have been schooled/lived with.
In own experience,DSers are very easy going,as well as with other peoples needs and are caring and helpful,especially as adults.
It does depend on the level of DS though,one DSer [prof/affected] am have lived with would never get far out of the home when staff took him for a walk,he'd get to the end of the street before stripping all of his clothes off,drop to the floor,shove his fist down his throat to make himself vomit blood,he got high rate mobility and a car through motability because of that last year.
Another DSer am have lived with [still live with him now,though am not at the home],is nothing like that at all,he is very autie like himself,he is also very protective of am,staff say he has no 'challenging behavior' at all,though as a teen he stole a milk float,he was banned from a pub when he used to live in an institution as the other resident he went with [an aspie] had challenging behavior and smashed glasses in there,and the same lady made him steal things from a shop once [he ended up in trouble for it,though she isnt a bad person either].
He's one of the nicest people have ever known,and don't get anyone quieter than him either.

...The exact same way you treat anyone else?

I treat them the same way that I would treat typical people. I love special needs people of all kinds. I affectionately call them, including myself Sids. :O)

I ignore them if possible. Their ugliness angers me.

...that's incredibly rude. It's not as if they can help how they look.

I take a similar tack to people like you--except that my ignoring is based more on my love of human decency than on some shallow, eugenicist BS.

I can't help feeling intuitively angry when I see a Downs face. I have the same sensitivity to ugliness that some have to blood.

I'm sure such silly anger can be overridden however. Have you ever tried?
Or try changing your perception on what is "ugly".

I could never view Down's as pretty. The idea sickens me. I'm sorry but I believe certain genes must be erased from the genepool before abominations like those can be born. They are not just a neurological variation, they are misfits, mistakes of nature. I believe AS has some purpose but Down's is just like cancer.

Zoonic, it is probably projection.

...Yeah... okay. Eugenics much. Downies have as much a right to exist as anyone else.
I would call your attitude ridiculous.

Not really. AS is usually associated with higher intelligence while Down's is a retardation and a physical malformity. People who think "everyone who's not NT are all the same and need to group hug" are welcome to join the Down's people for lethal injection, firing squad or collective gas chamber.

Upper class families will start purging the genepool and tailor make babies in just another 100 years time. They will buy perfect genes and fix the rest with nano plastic surgery. Down's people will inevitably cease to exist in all places except for trashy third world ghettoes.

I cannot believe that, on WrongPlanet of all places, eugenics is being so openly promoted.

And we would soon follow. But maybe you're too.... blind to see that.
But off topic, and my anger is starting to make me prone to things that aren't allowed on wrongplanet, so.

Just the low functioning autists would follow and I have no objections to that what so ever. The future won't require social skills the same way, it's already happening now in the computer age. More and more people will be like really high functioning aspies.

When you cook or craft something there's always some spoils in the process, in order to achieve the refined product. The autists and low functioning aspies are the spoils while the high functioning aspies are prototypes for feature NT's.

Oh, and what on earth makes you think that they would be able to tell apart how we function while we're floating around in the womb? Futhermore! Functioning levels are not constant; in most, they change throughout ones life! And who is to say they would want even us "high functioning" people around, for pete's sake.