FINDING COOPER'S VOICE WITH KATE SWENSON PART 1

BE KIND TO EVERYONE

Jeff Dauler

Kids & Family, Education

5 • 771 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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We are so excited to have a very special guest on the podcast today. Kate Swenson started a blog after her son Cooper was diagnosed with autism at age three. What originally started as a secret project for Kate, gained a massive following after a painfully honest video she posted during one of the darker days hit hard for many parents of kids with autism. Today, we'll talk about the start of Finding Cooper's Voice, the lessons she's learned since Cooper's diagnosis and her book "Forever Boy" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Hudson, how are you? Good. What are we going to do right now? I'm going to ask you questions.
0:11.5	Okay, all right. Hit it. Okay. What's your favorite color?
0:16.5	This is harder than you would think. They asked me this the other day in the shirt shop. My probably secret favorite color, so nobody tell is brown.
0:24.4	But I don't feel like anybody loves brown, so I always say it's blue.
0:28.5	But like espresso brown, I love it.
0:31.4	But like nobody says their favorite color is brown, so I always just say blue.
0:34.3	But that's the inside scoop, so nobody tell.
0:37.0	Okay.
0:37.8	What's your favorite activity?
0:40.5	Oh, what's my favorite activity?
0:42.9	That's a hard one.
0:44.0	I really enjoy reading a book, although I rarely ever do it.
0:47.7	And the reason why is because I love reading the book so much, I struggle to get anything else done.
0:52.6	I just want to power through it and just I get so
0:57.4	absorbed in it. So that's probably one of my favorite things to do, but I don't do that very often.
1:04.7	Like the thing I do a lot that I enjoy is I love going out to eat with all of us as a family, and I love going to watch
1:12.4	you play sports.
1:13.7	What's your favorite animal?
1:16.5	Okay.
1:17.1	Wild animal.
1:17.9	Okay, I was going to say dog.
1:19.7	But my favorite wild animal, hands down, no question, giraffe.
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