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  • 1 week ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Laura Kwerel

    This story is part of the My Unsung Hero series, from the Hidden Brain team. It features stories of people whose kindness left a lasting impression on someone else. One day in September 2016, 7-year-old Vedant Prasad, who is autistic, found out that his school could no longer serve him. A few days earlier, his speech therapist had also decided that she wasn't the right person to support him. Vedant is nonverbal, so he has trouble expressing exactly what's on his mind.

  • 3 weeks ago | npr.org | Laura Kwerel

    Jon Hegwood (left), his son Ryan and father, Michael, at Hegwood's high school graduation ceremony in 2009. Jon Hegwood family photo hide caption toggle caption Jon Hegwood family photo This story is part of the My Unsung Hero series, from the Hidden Brain team. It features stories of people whose kindness left a lasting impression on someone else. In 2007, when Jon Hegwood was 16, he found out he was going to become a father.

  • 1 month ago | nhpr.org | Autumn Barnes |Laura Kwerel

    This story is part of the My Unsung Hero series, from the Hidden Brain team. It features stories of people whose kindness left a lasting impression on someone else. On a hot summer day in 2010, Vivian Curren decided to take her 3-year-old son, Benjamin, to a park on the beach. Curren rarely took him anywhere, because in those days, Benjamin could be impulsive and unpredictable in public. She had grown accustomed to the stares they would get from other parents in response to his behavior.

  • 1 month ago | boisestatepublicradio.org | Laura Kwerel

    This story is part of the My Unsung Hero series, from the Hidden Brain team. It features stories of people whose kindness left a lasting impression on someone else. When Ashley Blas was 7 years old, her mother passed away. They were living in New York at the time and her mother was buried in her hometown of Chicago. In 2023, nearly 30 years later, Blas decided to fly to Chicago to visit her mother's grave for the first time since the funeral. She used a car service to drive her to the cemetery.

  • 2 months ago | kpbs.org | Laura Kwerel

    This story is part of the My Unsung Hero series, from the Hidden Brain team. It features stories of people whose kindness left a lasting impression on someone else. When she was 4 years old, Terry Hill and her two young siblings were left in the car by themselves as their father ran into a donut shop. This was 1968, when leaving children unattended for a short time was common. What happened that day would become a story Hill has told and re-told her entire life.

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