Ask the Doctor - 012 : Do you know something about ASD that other people with autism might not know‪?‬ Andrea Libutti, MD

Ask the Doctor: Anything Autism
Doctor Andrea Libutti, MD answers your questions on autism

• Do you know something about ASD that other people with autism might not know? •

I have this really tragic, but funny in retrospect, story about autism and the word gift.

I had been on my journey with my son with autism for close to a decade, when I approached the head of one of the largest autism conferences in the U.S. with an idea.

I began talking enthusiastically about my discoveries along my journey and how I had come to see autism as the greatest gift of my life so far.

I described the realizations and epiphanies that my son’s autism had afforded me, and how my connection with my son had evolved as I loosened my grip on “fixing” him, and instead embracing him for who he is.

When I finally stopped talking, she had only one very strong, very angry thing to say to me...

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My name is Andrea Libutti and I’m a doctor, author and mother of a brilliant son, who at the age of 2 was diagnosed with severe autism.