Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Rosie O’Donnell Pens Essay About Her Daughter’s Autism: ‘She Teaches Me’
etonline.comRosie O'Donnell published a moving essay this week on her experience raising her youngest daughter, Dakota, who was diagnosed with autism when she was 2 years old.
The experience continues to teach O'Donnell about having «compassion much deeper than I ever did» and to «really listen and communicate in a way I never had with my other kids,» she writes.
Though candid about the struggle of such a learning curve, O'Donnell is clear: «The sense of vulnerability that comes with having a kid with autism has been a gift to me,» the 60-year-old actress writes. «She teaches me.»The essay, published in, starts with a recap of how Dakota first received her diagnosis.
O'Donnell writes that her daughter «was always highly verbal» and that «she has always been very cuddly...I thought she was quirky — and beautiful and perfect.» Still, O'Donnell knew «something was off» when she noticed Dakota was not answering to her name, and that the diagnosis felt like «a punch in the stomach.» Nevertheless, she quickly began gathering resources for herself and her daughter. «You can read as much as possible,» she writes, «but they say when you meet one person with autism, you've met one person with autism.
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