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

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After all, no one expects to have a special needs child and her innate desire to be a mother with a child who could relate to other children was understandable as well as heartbreaking. A few years ago I uploaded my kids' autism diagnosis paperwork to my phone, because I was constantly needing to share it with different doctors and therapists.

I would recommend this book not only to those with autistic children but anyone really, to learn about what we go through as parents and more importantly what our children go through and to help spread more acceptance and understanding in the world. But through hard work, resilience and personal growth, she would come to learn that Cooper wasn't the one who needed to change.Kate Swenson lives in Minnesota with her husband Jamie, and four children, Cooper, Sawyer, Harbor and Wynnie. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

And before I knew it, instead of being Cooper, the little boy with blond hair who loved trains and smelled like the wind, he was a No. She speaks regularly about autism, parenting, and motherhood, and is a contributor to TODAY Parents , The TODAY Show , and the Love What Matters blog.

So I just kind of fade back a little bit and let the world share all their opinions and thoughts on autism. There are some heartbreaking stories in this memoir about Cooper being left alone in a classroom while all the other kindergarteners are off at a Christmas party, put in the audience while the rest of the kids sang in a holiday carol-type situation and punished by taking away his recess. She was honest about her marital difficulties and her trouble relating to other parents who did not understand that her greatest desire was to see Cooper be all that he could be. Thanks Kate for such a raw but honest account of your journey which in turn tells me that we’ll also be ok.

It shows how a compassionate and caring Mother did everything she could think of, and never gave up, to help her Autistic son start to communicate with the world.And I start by talking about what if someone would have told me that my first child would be disabled?

None of the testimonials included within the Barbera Behavior Consulting Materials are from current clients.There is so much to say about this book- I laughed, I cried and I was instantly taken back to the early days of receiving an autism diagnosis for our son. From the bestselling author of Love Lives Here, a deeply personal memoir about facing life-long trauma head on, and bravely healing the scars that endure.