The person behind the book

Nearly thirty years spent in the places where the human body breaks and gets repaired: first as an Italian military professional, then for fifteen years at Humanitas Research Hospital in Milan, now in the surgical department of Hospital Vithas Lleida in Catalonia, where he serves on the Patient Safety Committee.

At forty-eight, an autism diagnosis rewrote the question. The question shifted: from "what is wrong with me" to "why did no one tell me sooner". What looked like a diagnostic endpoint turned out to be the starting point for everything.

He writes because the map he never had needs to exist. Not to educate, not to campaign. Because precision matters: a false map is worse than no map at all, and the wrong words cause damage.

Wrong Planet / Right Mind - the book