Welcome to Why Not Me, the World Podcast, hosted by Tony Mantour.

Broadcasting from Music City, USA.

Nashville, Tennessee.

Join us as our guests tell us their stories.

Some will make your laugh, some will make you cry.

Real life people who will inspire and show that you are not alone in this world.

Hopefully you gain more awareness, acceptance,

and a better understanding for autism around the World. Today's guest is Y-Nite

Sabatello. She's originally from Israel living in London now. She has two children, one which is autistic.

Welcome to the show. I appreciate you. Thank you really. Thank you so much for having me here.

Oh, it's my pleasure. So you have two children, one girl

that's neurotypical and one son this autistic. Can you tell us a little

bit about him and then tell us how you came to find that he's autistic.

So Daniel at that time was 15 months.

He was very young.

So, yeah, so, but that actually, to be honest, when we arrived here and he hardly talked, yeah?

And he took us a lot of time, it took him a lot of time until we understood him so the fact that we came from

Israel was an element of delay there because they thought they kept on telling us oh he's bilingual so that's probably the reason

but yeah I felt that there is something else and to be honest his dad and I are not together now because that caused a lot of issues as well.

When I knew that there's something there that is not quite right and I fought to get some assessment in place and I fought to get some assessments in place and I fought for her to have someone to see him and support him because the first few years he was he was diagnosed only in 2020 so he was seven years old.

I can understand that completely.

Speech is difficult when you move from one area to another area in the same country,

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