The Autism Dad

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The Day He Called Her Mom | Deena Nathan (S9E14)

August 12, 2026

Deena Nathan's five year old son Hayden is autistic and non-speaking, and he's fluent on his AAC device. In this episode she walks through a day that starts with therapy at 8am, the win she's still not over, and the one thing she wants people to understand about a kid who doesn't talk. She's also honest about something most people won't say out loud. She has real support, good family, friends who get it, and it's still lonely. Both of those things are true at once, and that might be the most...

Outsourcing the Panic | Erin Lamb (S9E13)

July 22, 2026

Erin Lamb has been a speech language pathologist for 26 years. She runs a Baltimore nonprofit with its own school for autistic kids. She has a Ph.D. She still missed her own daughter's autism. Why does autism get missed in girls? Most of the foundational autism research was done on boys. As Erin puts it, everything she knew about autism she learned from boys in the 90s, because that's what the research was done on. That research shaped the training, and the training shaped what people pictur...

What Level 2 Autism Can Look Like | Lauren Murray (S9E12)

July 15, 2026

“Most people don’t even tag her with autism, because she’s smart, she’s so articulate.” Lauren Murray Lauren Murray is a New Jersey mom of two, and her daughters are almost twenty years apart. Her oldest is about to turn 21, a UCF graduate thriving in Florida. Her youngest is four, level two autistic, with sensory processing disorder and a short list of safe foods. She is also, in Lauren’s words, doing fantastic. In this Seen and Heard episode, Lauren gives Rob an honest look at a day that ...