Forever Boy: A Mother's Memoir of Autism and Finding Joy

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The worst thing ever is seeing your best friend slowly replacing you with another friend.” —Unknown

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Take this quiz and get a custom report based on your unique personality and goals. Learn how YOU can be better at connecting and turning people into close friends. No matter how far you manage to go, distance will never be able to erase those beautiful memories. There is so much goodness that we shared together.” — Lucy Aims When a premarital counselor asked Swenson and her boyfriend at the time, Jamie, how they would cope with the challenges of caring for a child on the autism spectrum, they balked. “ What a silly question,” she writes. “That would not happen to us. He went on to briefly talk about the stress of hav­ing children, and how a child with special needs intensifies it. I remember not being jarred by the question, not in the slightest. I mean, we were healthy and invincible.” After suffering a miscarriage, the couple’s second pregnancy resulted in Cooper, who could not be comforted by touch. Cooper mystified the author and made her an outsider to the “exclusive club” of mothers with so-called “normal” children. As she struggled to make sense of her situation and the attendant personal and financial challenges, Jamie distanced himself. Though they divorced, they became more committed to giving their children—especially Cooper, who had been diagnosed with severe, language-impeding autism—“their best life.” Finally able to work as a team, she and Jamie fought doctors and schools to give Cooper what he needed, and they remarried each other. Despite their loving care, Cooper was subject to fits of rage so violent that they feared for the safety of their other children. The author, creator of the blog Finding Cooper’s Voice, finally decided to medicate Cooper to ameliorate the anxiety that stalked him, despite her fear that drugs would turn him into a “zombie.” The result was miraculous. Much calmer in general, Cooper began to build a small vocabulary that helped him emerge from the lonely world in which he had been trapped. This wise, inspiring book will appeal to not only parents of children with autism, but anyone interested in stories about the selflessness and endurance of maternal love. A best friend accepts who you are, but also helps you become who you should be.” —Unknown Cute best friend quotesCan miles truly separate you from friends? If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?” — Richard Bach With her popular blog, Finding Cooper's Voice, Kate Swenson has provided hope and comfort for hundreds of thousands of parents of children with Autism. Now, Kate shares her inspiring story in this powerful memoir about motherhood and unconditional love Kate: Yeah, there's lots of them, so we have them on the Kindle. That's so funny that you said that. Yes, that has been life changing, and we have multiple devices in our house, so one of them doesn't have it. And yesterday I said, turn it down probably 50 times because he was being very he had an anxious day, but the noise? I go crazy with the noise.

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I’m so grateful you came into my life when you did. Happy birthday and I can’t wait to celebrate many more!” —Unknown What do you call a child diagnosed with Diabetes? Most say they are diabetic, otherwise, it is sooo demeaning to that individual being put a label saying I’m one with. . . Kate: OK, I will read a little bit. One thing I wanted to say is are two things I've been asked if this is a book, if it's sad and they're going to cry the whole entire time? No, it's honestly a really hopeful book. You're going to have tears. I think you'll probably have some, but it's really hopeful. And the second thing that I've been asked is, is this only for parents of children with autism? No. I have a big following of parents whose or anybody whose life just didn't turn out as they expected, maybe something just took a turn. So please know it's really a story like that to where it's really about Plan B and how important it is. So I'm going to read from Chapter eight and I'm going to read about when I first heard about autism. Her memoir describes her emotions and feelings on the diagnosis process to the disappointment and huge levity that was placed on her discovering her child would have special needs.

A best friend may not talk to you every day. She might live in another city, or even a different time zone, but she’s the first one you call when something happens that’s really great or really hard.” — Unknown I don’t have a bunch of mates. I don’t have a man cave. My wife and I, we are each other’s best friend.” —Corbin Bernsen Girl best friend quotes

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I must be insane because I don’t know anyone else crazy enough to endure you! Happy birthday, bestie!” —Unknown Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.” — Alphonse De Lamartine Life is about finding people who are your kind of crazy. You don’t have to be crazy to be my friend, but it helps.” —Unknown There are few things in life that are quite as sweet as a best friend. Enjoy these sweet and simple quotes about best friends.It is a strange experience to go from calling someone your best friend to not calling them at all. And while losing your best friend is not an easy thing, don’t lose faith. Enjoy the memories you had with this person, and trust that your new best friend is somewhere out there looking for you too. Leading media outlets such as TIME Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, The Hill, MSN, WebMD, and 100+ more rely on SocialSelf’s expertise in psychology. Bummed due to the person who recommended the book is friends with the author. And, my sister. Didn’t know my story. Kate: It's the memoir style story of us, so it starts out with me as a little girl, which is the opening and how I just dreamed of being a mother and I always played house and babies. I think I was like 12 years old and went right to babysitting and nannying. And I start by talking about what if someone would have told me that my first child would be disabled? Would it have changed my way of thinking? And there are no crystal balls, so we don't we don't know that, and I never thought I would have a child with a disability. I'm always the first to say that because it's just I had no idea that that could happen. And then it goes into my husband. I had a miscarriage first, and then we had Cooper. And really, it is just the ups and downs and turns and twists of his diagnosis, which you think it's going to be so easy. You know, my child has this going on. This is the answer, but it's not. There is no blood test. There is no marker. There is. And we really had to fight for that diagnosis. And then, you know, over the years of trying to get him help and services, nothing fell into our lap. It was just a constant pull and, you know, push and pull for everything. And then, you know, the climax of the book is really I realized I was missing a lot of his life, grieving the things that he would never do. And I had to change. I just had to change who I was. Me, not him. He was fine. He was exactly who he was supposed to be. I was the problem and changed my way of thinking, and I adopted this tagline Find the Joy, which is cheesy to some people, but I had to live in this happy place because it was eating me alive.

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Mary: I'm sure it's going to help many, many thousands, millions of people over time. So what are your hopes for your future, for Cooper's future, for your book, for yourself or your family? What are your hopes?Kate: I'm already getting that, and I'm like, Oh, yeah, like, my agent was like, What do you think of this idea? And I'm like, I'm not thinking about that idea. Like, I was thinking about this idea. Know what the saddest part was? Calling you my best friend instead of another fake friend.” —Unknown It’s hard to move on from a broken heart, but it’s harder to move on from a broken friendship.” —Unknown Kate: And here's what's so funny is I feel like I'm kind of a new parent in a way because, you know, Cooper was so different than the baby books predicted. And then Sawyer just kind of skated through because he was so in a sense, you can just say easy to parent. There were no struggles with him in the beginning. So now I'm like, Oh my gosh, terrible threes are a real thing. This is hard, it's like I'm starting over.