A child was born. He's not the one we expected. He is “not like that”... And we feel that everything is lost, there is no hope. The world is collapsing... These feelings are familiar to many people in whose families a child was born with one or another health disorder. The author of the book “My Little Buddha”, Valentina Laslocki, also went through this. But soon she felt: the world had not collapsed, life went on. A normal, full life: maternal love and filial love, parental joys and worries... Perhaps the experience of a mother who raised a child with Down syndrome will help parents who find themselves in a similar situation overcome many problems. After all, her son grew up, received a professional education, and works in his specialty. In addition, V. Laszlotzky’s book presents the problem of rehabilitation of people with developmental disabilities from a slightly different perspective, showing from the inside how a family experiences such a situation, and also gives a lesson in tolerance to representatives of the widest strata of society.