Taking care of you

How to spot caregiver burnout and recharge before you hit empty.

What to do when family or friends do not accept your child's diagnosis.

What that first moment felt like, and what I'd tell you about it now, years down the road.

Holidays wreck routines and everyone feels it. Permission to do them smaller.

How to stay informed about policy that affects your family without letting it flatten you.

What the services cliff actually looks like from inside a family living it.

Mightier

Clinically validated biofeedback games that teach kids to manage big emotions. Built by child psychologists at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Mightier has helped thousands of families reduce meltdowns and build lasting emotional skills.

So Your Child Was Just Diagnosed with Autism

Rob Gorski

My book for the parent who just got the news. Everything on this page comes from it.

Written from twenty-five years of parenting autistic kids, not from theory.

The Unbreakable Boy

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Scott LeRette

Scott LeRette's story of raising his son, later adapted into a feature film.

From Struggle to Strength

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Harry Psaros

Harry's account of raising his son Gus, from the earliest signs onward. Another autism dad who went and wrote it down.

The Gift of the Unexpected

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Jillian Benfield

Jillian's book on the life you did not plan for, and finding it worth having anyway. She was on the show.

Doing It All

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Whitney Casares, MD, MPH, FAAP

Dr. Casares on what happens when you over-function until there is nothing left of you. She is the pediatrician from our sleep episodes.

The Working Mom Blueprint

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Whitney Casares, MD, MPH, FAAP

Parenting without disappearing into it. Written for working moms, and the part about running on empty reads true for any parent carrying too much.

Raising Body-Confident Kids

Whitney Casares, MD, MPH, FAAP

Body image, diet culture, and food pressure, handled without shame. Dr. Casares covered this on the show for autistic and ADHD kids specifically.

Honest conversations about autism parenting, from our family to yours.

Dr. Whitney Casares on why autistic kids struggle to sleep and what actually helps. Start here if nobody in your house is resting.

The most honest episode I've recorded, about burnout and the moment it nearly took me under. You are not the only one.

What divorce looks like when your kids are neurodivergent, from someone who's lived it.

How autistic kids process significant loss, and how to support them through it.

If you've wondered how all of this lands on your other kids, this one is for you.

Another autism dad on what years of broken sleep does to a family, and how you keep going anyway.

A sibling's perspective, in their own words. Hard to hear and worth hearing.

Jillian Benfield on the diagnosis you did not expect. Not autism, and every bit of it lands the same.

Scott LeRette on raising his son, in his own voice. Pairs with his book in the Books section.

Harry Psaros on what dads carry and rarely say out loud. He wrote the book listed above.

Body image, diet culture, and food pressure for our kids specifically. Dr. Casares wrote the book on it.

A parent-to-parent conversation with Kate about the hard days and the hope you build anyway.

Kate Swenson writes honestly about raising a son with high support needs.

Eileen Lamb writes as both an autism parent and an autistic adult.

Dr. Whitney Casares on sleep, health, and keeping yourself upright while you parent.

Glenn Michael's community for autism parents who need somewhere to put it all down.

Kate Swenson writes about high support needs autism without sanding the edges off it.

Our local chapter. Family support, training, and community across Northeast Ohio.

The organization behind Aria's Angels, and one I work with directly.

Our Facebook community where autism parents connect, ask questions, and find encouragement.