If you have been in this field for a while you must have heard the Einstein analogy at some point. “Einstein didn’t talk until he was 5 and he ended up a genius”, “Einstein spent days at a time in social isolation yet he was successful in his life”. On the same line of thinking we hear a lot of the following statements: “My husband (no offence to our male readers :)) is totally on the spectrum and he made it thorough school without a diagnosis. Why are we diagnosing these kids with all these issues now, when before, they were not such a big deal?”

On Saturday morning I had the opportunity to attend another dads’ coffee group meeting, aside from my regular one, for a new group of guys that has started here in my city. Over the past couple of months since our Dallas Morning News story appeared, we have had a lot of interest from dads in the area looking to network and get together in a low key setting. Soon we’ll be spreading out to other cities to get other new groups started.