The Brutal Reality of Raising a Child With Severe Autism w/ Kate Swenson

What happens when the future you imagined for your child starts to look completely different? Kate Swenson, creator of ‪@findingcoopersvoice‬ joins us for an incredibly honest conversation about autism, motherhood, caregiving, acceptance, and the complicated emotions parents are often afraid to say out loud. Plus, Kate shares the story behind Finding Cooper’s Voice, her advocacy work, her upcoming book, and why caregivers need community and support just as much as the people they care for. 00:00 “God, You Picked the Wrong Person” 01:19 Meet Kate Swenson of Finding Cooper’s Voice 03:21 How Autism Changed Kate’s Life 09:56 The Unexpected Story Behind Kate’s First Book 11:03 Kate’s New Autism Guide for Families 20:09 The Reality of Planning for an Autistic Child’s Future 21:43 Why Honest Autism Moms Get Called “Negative” 22:53 Two Things Can Be True About Autism 27:31 Parenting vs. Caregiving: What’s the Difference? 38:52 When Younger Siblings Begin to Pass Them 40:59 Grieving the Life You Imagined for Your Child 41:55 Kate Swenson Opens Up About Her Lowest Point 44:08 Learning to Accept the Future You Can’t Control 51:51 Why Caregivers Have to Put the Torch Down Sometimes 52:32 Finding Community Through the More Than Project https://morethanproject.org/ https://www.findingcoopersvoice.com/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ FOLLOW US! ✨ Instagram:   / ttmspod   TikTok:   / talktomesispod   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ *🎙️ FOLLOW THE PODCAST!* Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7KoQQ8F... 💜 Subscribe or follow Talk To Me Sis wherever you listen so you never miss a new episode! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━