Cobie Smulders
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first heard Sep 2026
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Chapter one
Intellectual property
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I am a special needs parent.
Or at least that was the now somewhat problematic terminology when my son was born twenty four years ago.
You see, some wonderful human beings out there took special and weaponized it into an insult meaning stupid, and that is why we can't have nice things.
Then again, maybe special was always a bit condescending.
Nowadays I think the preferred term would be the parent of a child with a developmental disability.
Which is just super catchy and rolls right off the tongue.
Put it this way, I am the proud mom of a boy, well, adult now, still struggling to wrap my head around that one, named Emmet, who has Down syndrome.
He was our first.
So my husband Rob and I were thrown into the deep end of the parenting pool before we knew how to doggy paddle.
Conveniently this all happened three thousand miles away from any friend or family support, which we'd left behind in our native New York after moving to Los Angeles for Rob's screenwriting career.
And then we had a baby.
And that baby turned out to be Emmet, who turned out to be a full time job.
Raising Emmet, who is wonderful, and
and challenging, I became an involuntary stay at home mom, struggling to support his numerous developmental and medical needs, which included an open heart surgery when he was just under a year old.
Rob worked to support the family writing movies in Hollywood and became quite successful.
Which was lucky because a more accurate term than special needs might have been fucking expensive needs.
Endless doctor visits, specialists, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech therapy.
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