Fresh Take: Kate Swenson, Carrie Cariello, and Adrian Wood on Parenting Kids with Autism

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What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Parenting, Kids & Family, Comedy

4.6 • 962 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Even though there is more awareness about neurodivergence in today's world, there's still a lot most people don't know about what it's like parenting neurodivergent children. Kate Swenson, Carrie Cariello, and Adrian Wood, authors of the new book AUTISM OUT LOUD, discuss their individual journeys parenting a child with autism from diagnosis to young adulthood. Kate, Carrie, Adrian, and Margaret discuss: Figuring out what success looks like for your child with autism How an autism diagnosis affects family dynamics Processing the grief that accompanies an autism diagnosis Kate Swenson is the creator of the blog and Facebook page Finding Cooper’s Voice. She speaks regularly about autism, parenting, and motherhood, and is a contributor to TODAY Parents, The TODAY Show, and the Love What Matters blog. Carrie Cariello is the author of What Color Is Monday, Someone I’m With Has Autism, and Half My Sky. Adrian Wood is the creator of the vlog Tales of an Educated Debutante. She has a PhD in Educational Research and contributes to TODAY Parents, The TODAY show, and the Love What Matters blog. Buy AUTISM OUT LOUD: https://bookshop.org/a/12099/9780778368366 Find out where the Autism Out Loud book tour is headed at https://autismoutloudbook.com/ Here's where you can find Kate: www.findingcoopersvoice.com @findingcoopersvoice on FB and IG https://findingcoopersvoice.substack.com/ Here's where you can find Carrie: @whatcolorismonday on FB @carrie_carriello on IG www.carriecariello.com https://substack.com/@carriecariello Here's where you can find Adrian: www.talesofaneducateddebutante.com @educateddebutante on FB @talesofaneducateddebutante on IG @theeducateddebutante on YT We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://www.whatfreshhellpodcast.com/p/promo-codes/ What Fresh Hell is co-hosted by Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson. mom friends, funny moms, parenting advice, parenting experts, parenting tips, mothers, families, parenting skills, parenting strategies, parenting styles, busy moms, self-help for moms, manage kid’s behavior, teenager, tween, child development, family activities, family fun, parent child relationship, decluttering, kid-friendly, invisible workload, default parent, parental stress, emotions, kids emotions, parent emotions, uncertainty, autism out loud, autism after high school, autism and young adults, neurodivergent children, parenting neurodivergent children, autism, autism spectrum disorder, autistic children, special needs children, special education, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.3	Hello and welcome to Fresh Take from What Fresh Hell Laughing in the Face of Motherhood.
0:36.8	This is Margaret.
0:37.9	And today I am talking to Carrie Carriello, Kate Swenson, and Adrian Wood, who are the authors of the new book, Autism Out Loud.
0:47.6	Kate Swenson is the creator of the blog and Facebook page Finding Cooper's Voice.
0:51.5	You will recognize her.
0:52.5	We have spoken to her on the podcast before.
0:54.9	She speaks regularly about autism parenting in motherhood and is a contributor to today parents,
1:00.5	the Today Show, and the Love What Matters blog. Carrie Carriyellow is the author of What
1:06.3	Color is Monday. Someone I'm with has autism and Half my sky. Adrian Wood is the creator of the vlog
1:14.1	Tales of an Educated debutante. She has a PhD in educational research and contributes to today parents,
1:21.2	the Today Show, and the Love What Matters blog. Welcome to all. Thank you. Thank you for having us. So let's start where we often
1:30.4	start with the title, Autism Out Loud. You talk about this in the opening of the book. Adrienne,
1:36.2	what brought you to the title, Autism Out Loud? I think we all really came to the quick realization
1:43.1	that this book is about living out loud.
1:46.1	And, you know, we might have thought we could escape under the radar before. And now that we
1:51.1	have these people we love in our lives, we definitely are out in public and we live out loud.
1:57.5	And that was really important to us so that somebody might say, wow, that's me too.
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