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Monika Pašukonytė

Mom Of Four Diagnosed With Down Syndrome At 23, Says She Finally Got The Answers She Needed

Imagine just going through life knowing that something about you doesn’t quite feel right. You feel like you sometimes lag behind your classmates and get different diagnoses from doctors that derail your whole understanding of yourself.

Well, that happened to Ashley Zambelli, a then-23-year-old mother, who only discovered her Down syndrome diagnosis after visiting an OBGYN, where she found out that three of her four children had tested positive for Trisomy 21. Her entire life changed for the better, but the discovery was a lengthy, emotionally charged process that she shared on TikTok, so let’s take a look at how it unfolded.

More than ever, adults are receiving late diagnoses, but Down Syndrome isn’t normally one that’s discovered later in life

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