Cobie Smulders
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274 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 10 Sep
Cobie Smulders’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mix whenever a specialist says this about my son.
It sounds somehow boastful and diminishing at the same time.
loom large on the horizon.
Rob and I are so lucky to have a wonderful loving younger sibling for Emmet and Darcy.
And yet we are so aware that she should not feel it's her job in adulthood to be responsible for her brother once we're gone.
Then I have an idea.
It takes me two years of excruciatingly slow progress, but I write a memoir about my journey as Emmett's mom called Now What?
The title refers to the giant cliff anyone raising a child with a disability is headed toward, a cliff called adulthood.
What happens after your atypical kid ages out of the school system?
We fancy ourselves an advanced civilization, and yet we have shockingly few good answers to this question.
And then there's the other aspect of the now what question, the parent part.
As in, you just spent the last two decades grinding to get your kid ready for a life of semi-independence, so that one day you can keep the non-negotiable appointment at the end of your life where you, you know, die, never fully confronting the fact that you've still got five more decades to fill.
Even though you no longer remember who the hell you are, what the hell you want, or what the hell you did before all this.
So now you're just left stumbling around in the dark, wondering what
Now what?
To answer that question.
I open a local business called Cafe Everyone, where my son and other young adults with disabilities can work.
have some structure, and hopefully find meaning and community.
Despite my not knowing what the hell I'm doing, even a little, the damn thing works.
Not a smash, but a viable business with me as the manager.
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