Yesterday, one of AutismSpot’s own Featured Bloggers, Psychologist Dr. Robert Naseef, flew through DFW after spending the weekend leading a conference for parents in El Paso. AutismSpot’s visionary Kent Potter took this opportunity to turn Dr. Naseef’s layover into some on-camera time with Dr. Naseef. I was fortunate enough to participate.

Dr. Naseef not only works with families raising children with ASD in the Philidelphia area, he also has an adult son with Autism. I heard Dr. Naseef speak last summer when he hosted a Father’s Panel at the annual conference hosted by the Autism Society. Dr. Naseef is very knowledgeable and forthcoming about what life is like for our families and ways to handle stress and make life better.

During filming, Dr. Naseef answered several questions posed by fathers. One of the questions: “Will it ever get easier?” led to a very thoughtful and interesting answer…without fully spilling the beans, I will tell you that Dr. Naseef shared that with Autism, there is “No Exit!” Life with Autism just isn’t "easy" yet there is no exit door...In my words: we just have to keep on keeping on! But, as Dr. Naseef will share in his upcoming AutismSpot video, there is an ebb and flow when it comes to the stress involved with raising a child with Autism and sustaining a marriage at the same time. Dr. Naseef shared some excellent suggestions for keeping the lines of communication open between fathers and mothers (to maintain healthy marriages) and between fathers and children (to create a loving and powerful bond in spite of living with ASD in the family).

I am eager for the final video product to emerge (so all of you can watch it) and encourage you to keep an eye out for it in the coming weeks.

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Leigh Attaway Wilcox is a writer and editor for the projectLD family of companies. Leigh is Assistant Editor of the internationally acclaimed AutismSpot.com and her work can be found on many of the pLDNetworks sites. Leigh is the author of ALL BETTER: A Touch-and-Heal Book published by Piggy Toes Press in 2007. Leigh lives in North Texas with her husband and young son who loves reading, LEGOs, Mario Bros. and also happens to live with Asperger's Syndrome, an Autism Spectrum Disorder.