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 Susan Marontes. She has an autistic son and works at the Dan Marino Foundation.

So she has a great story to tell us.

Thanks for coming on, Susan.

Oh, you're quite welcome.

So, what age was it that your son was diagnosed?

autistic?

Well, my son was actually diagnosed

when he was probably between two and three

with a severe language delay. And then he wasn't like really diagnosed with autism until he was

four when he saw a neurologist.

What was he going through that made you realize that something wasn't quite right and you

had to find out and get a diagnosis? Well I mean it was you in the beginning it

was just the delay in language he had some words but not a lot

he had been at the time he was with a babysitter then only spoke of Danish so the

pediatrician was thinking that that was maybe the reason

that his language was delayed but then it soon became pretty clear that he

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