I’m an autistic child and I’m on the higher functioning side of the spectrum, my brother is not however. It’s interesting to see how different the disorder is in everyone and i appreciate the episode mentioning girls and boys with autism, since I didn’t get diagnosed till I was 12. Thank you <333

Since I’m a father of two autistic children, I can relate to Rob, especially when he opens up emotionally in front of his guests about the struggles of raising kids with ASD. When the guests are parents, I love how they open up too as that emotional transparency shatters that unnecessary stigma.

I love Rob’s heart for helping families around the topic of autism. His show never disappoints!

I stumbled across The Autism Dad blog first a few years ago when we were in the beginnings of my son’s ASD diagnosis. At the time I felt very lost and raw because I really had no clue. I fell in love with his blog for being a real snap shot in what it is like to be a special needs parent. The podcast has so many episodes with wonderful view points (I especially love hearing from his kids because they are speaking directly from their own personal experiences having ASD) and he also tries to present as many resources possible to parents (like myself) who are in the early years. Thank you for this! You have given me strength and insight as a fellow special needs parent.

The Autism Dad shares tons of useful information. In addition, he educates us as to the theories/opinions he supports as well as the nature of opposing theories/opinions.

Various topics, balanced opinions. You can tell rob really puts thought into his questions and also gives his human side and emotions. Good. I listen frequently.

Great to hear real talk from a family and he has lots of great info to share.

Always like hearing different view points and ideas, some don’t listen to more than one podcast before they think they know everything he is about and review obviously. Always so positive and uplifting to other families.

So many episodes to check out with various viewpoints. Thankful Rob has gone above and beyond to help parents advocate, feel supported and just not alone in this journey.

It's disappointing to listen to get another podcast promoting the pseudoscience that is S2C. How about considering interviewing a SLP with an opposing viewpoint, willing to share the research and facts as opposed to opinion?

Absolutely love listening to your podcast!

So glad I found you on Instagram! Thank you for sharing your life and giving us a glimpse into your experience. Amazing dad, sons and podcast.

So happy that I discovered this podcast. Dad and Emmett give me hope, comfort, and that feeling of not being alone with the most important role in my life… being a Parent to the most important human in the world, my Daughter. All of the episodes have something special and meaningful to think through. So happy I discovered this podcast after years of episodes. I’m blowing right through them!

The autism community is so lucky to have his support, advocacy and community!

Thank you so much for doing this! I have a grandson that will be three in January He just went for his evaluation yesterday, and he checks the boxes on every single thing, except for the fact that he is social and shows love So they told my daughter and Fatima, because of that he doesn’t have autism That was a got punched to all of us and we’re going to get another opinion, of course I just listened to your most recent podcast with you and your son Everything that you guys talked about just because he can’t speak does not mean he doesn’t understand We are so careful about what we talk about I sent that video to my daughter and son-in-law and told them they have to listen

Cannot wait to dive in and listen! Thank you! From a fellow Autism (and Epilepsy) family. Great work guys!🙌🏼💪🏼

Love this podcast! Rob is a compassionate, insightful interviewer. The podcast is informative, relatable, and encouraging. I especially enjoyed his recent podcast that included a Q&A with his son. highly recommend.

I’m so glad Rob has used the power of the microphone to shed more light on this important message. His podcast is so informative. I have learned so much from him and you can just feel how much he cares. Lovely listening!

Podcast owner claims to support other parents of autistic children yet is shutting down a popular Autism Parenting Reddit forum in favor of his own Facebook monetization. The community is losing a treasured resource thanks to this man’s greed.

There is a more nuanced conversation about ABA that needs to happen. This is presented as a therapy like a medical therapy like speech or PT or OT. The majority of therapy is done by people that might have a high school degree. Is not regulated like most therapy. And lot more points I’m not going to get into, not mob talking points but facts about the inherent flaws of behavioralism overall. A lot of stuff you guys talked about I do agree with but all ABA is not equal .I agreed the no shame in grieving the life you thought you would have ,it is self care and something you need to do to get past it and be ready for the new journey for your kids. I’m happy for anyone who this works for and hope you are not feeling attacked by this comment. But there is a big problem with how ABA is presented to parents and pushed on them. .

Just recently found you and your podcast on LinkedIn. I’ve been following and listening. Great content, interesting conversations and much needed perspective from a dad who is rockin’ this autism journey.

I also am a retired special education teacher who has worked with children from one end of the spectrum to the other. Great podcast!

Raw & Real.

So honored to be on Rob’s show and talk about this important issue of distance learning versus homeschooling. Most importantly, Rob is the real deal and his honestly and bravery in sharing his journey with all of us helps us all make it through the day.

Thank you for sharing your story and providing so many more perspectives on parenting autistic children. You are rocking it! Keep up the awesome work!

RE THE G-NIFFER REVIEW I’m happy to hear you decided against your drinking game. It would be a great loss for humanity if you were to experience liver failure and die leaving us without your signature hard-hitting insightful and constructive reviews. I really appreciated your tone in this review; the way you don’t hold anything back or concern yourself manners shows a lot of integrity. I think it’s important that people like you are out there to demoralize people who think that just because they are providing content for free out of the goodness of their hearts during their meager spare time that they will be excused from producing anything less than professional level content. If your Neanderthal brain managed to catch on to that sarcasm then perhaps you will be capable of using the wisdom from a great review I once read to revise your own review into something that doesn’t read like it was written by a sociopath. To paraphrase the aforementioned review, read your own review and read the mistakes and then come back. PODCAST REVIEW Thanks for making this podcast. Hearing your kids is especially helpful to get some insight as to what might be going on under the surface since my son is only three and doesn’t speak well (he mainly repeats a catalogue of phrases and it often doesn’t make sense to me). Also, I appreciated that you opened up about struggling to juggle everyday things while raising kids with autism. It feels like every day is a struggle just to get him to eat something and get him dressed and change his diaper and we are just fighting to make it to bedtime with the least meltdowns possible. I can really relate when you talked about having no energy at the end of the day to get anything done while piles of laundry and dishes grow higher and the constant flow medical bills go unpaid for several notices because we don’t have the money to pay right away and then they get lost in the clutter because our son scatters them all over house like he eventually does with everything in the house. Your episode on meltdowns and sensory issues was particularly helpful. I was always frustrated with my wife’s approach of giving him new meals if he wouldn’t eat what we gave him. I thought if he was hungry enough he would eat and it’s painful for me when so much food goes to waste while I’m struggling to make enough money to get by. It’s good to know that my wife is making the right decision by persistently trying to find something that is palatable for him given that it is a sensory issue. My son is an inscrutable little boy. He often tells me to go away when I get home from work for some reason. However, I was relieved to hear that your sons don’t like to be touched or verbally comforted during meltdowns either as it is has been quite difficult to have all of my heartfelt attempts to comfort him be so sharply rebuked by him in these traumatic moments when I want to care for him so badly. Hopefully one day my son will be able to communicate with me like your sons do with you. I know my son has a lot of potential and I have actually found his autism diagnosis last month to be a great blessing because it is helping me to understand him but God help me, I have been so lost for so long.

Constant repeating of words and too many ‘ums’ to handle. I thought about making a drinking game of it but decided that my liver couldn’t handle it. Listen to your own recordings and to the mistakes and then come back.