I just kept away from posting because it was too close for comfort! I can see why the poster may have used the name for herself, but it might have been better if she'd spelled her username properly if she lives in Crete - but then, how was she to know that it could possibly offend anyone, if she didn't have any relevant knowledge of what used to be described as 'cretinism'?
My DD was born in 1966 and I was only 16. My parents were insistent that she was adopted, and I was forced to leave her at the maternity hospital. However, the nursery had an outbreak of gastroenteritis and all the babies had to stay where they were for a week or so. It was noticed that DD wasn't gaining weight. The necessary tests were done and it was discovered that she had no thyroid gland. By this time she was 3 weeks old. I'd not been allowed to see her since she was born. She was fostered and I decided that I was keeping her by hook or by crook, although my parents said I wouldn't be allowed to bring her back home (that's another story, though). I finally got her into my own care, when she was 7 months old - and when I was living far enough away from my parents not to cause them any embarrassment. It was at her first appointment at the hospital out-patients that the consultant said something like, "Ah, so we have a cretin here....." Very coolly and matter-of-fact. I had no idea what he was talking about. However, because she'd received the appropriate dose of thyroxine from the time of diagnosis, this was no longer the case for her. There was one time, when she was going through puberty, that another consultant thought it might be useful to stop her thyroxine to see what would happen (he thought the hormone changes at the age she'd reached may just kick-start the thyroid gland if it was there at all). Within days, I noticed the change in her. She became very lethargic, hair and skin dried up and she put on a massive amount of weight very quickly. After the consultant saw her again on an emergency appointment, she was put straight back on to thyroxine and has been perfectly fine ever since. Sometimes she does get tired, but that's all.
Sorry for the long post, but I did just want to put my point forward. It's odd how things work out, because if there hadn't been the gastroenteritis outbreak in the nursery, and if my parents hadn't insisted she was to be adopted, I'd have brought her home after the birth. I possibly wouldn't have had the sense (or been too embarrassed at 16) to go to baby clinics and she wouldn't have had the thyroxine in her system soon enough to prevent the condition of 'cretinism' as they described it all those years ago. It's a funny old world.
I must add, though - none of my posts regarding my DD were looking for sympathy! I'm just glad she's a fine strong woman.