DOD279: When Should You Tell Your Kid They're Neurodivergent?
Dear Old Dads
Thomas Smith
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The dads take a listener email about how and when to talk to your kid about a diagnosis like ADHD or autism. When do you share this information with your kid, and is it something you should anticipate sharing at multiple points at different developmental stages?
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| 0:00.0 | I'm the cool dad. That's, that's my thing. |
| 0:09.0 | I know now what I can offer you that no one else can. Complete and undependent. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm a man. I'm sensitive. I need to feel loved. I need to be desired. |
| 0:23.1 | Yelling is the only part of being a father that I enjoy. |
| 0:28.3 | Welcome to dear old dads, the podcast that's not telling you what it knows. I'm Tom Curry. I'm joined as always by Thomas Smith and Eli Bosnick. |
| 0:37.9 | Hello, gentlemen. |
| 0:38.8 | ominous. |
| 0:39.4 | ominous indeed. |
| 0:41.3 | Ominous indeed. |
| 0:42.5 | I can't wait to find out what that's about. |
| 0:46.6 | So I want to tell you guys, Haley made a delicious and delightful error for Father's Day. |
| 0:53.3 | And I got to tell you guys about it. So for the last |
| 0:55.8 | several years, Haley has bought me a muffoletta sandwich from New Orleans. If you guys don't know, |
| 1:03.6 | that is a ridiculously- Did Father's Day happen? And I- No, it's June 22nd. So this is the mistake. |
| 1:09.8 | You know what I realized would be really funny is if Father's Day happened and Lydia just because she knows I would never call her out on it because I wouldn't know that it happened. Like if she just didn't do it and then waited for me to say something. That would be really funny. Okay. Just making sure. So it's June 21st or 22nd. I forgot which one is Father's Day. |
| 1:28.3 | It's coming up in a few weeks. I don't even remember. But like, whichever one is the Sunday, I don't remember. I don't have a calendar in front of me, but it sits around there. But anyway, Haley, for several years, has gone to like gold belly, and she's had a mufflette a sandwich or mooflet, I don't know how it's pronounced, from New Orleans |
| 1:43.2 | shipped to me. And it's this huge |
| 1:45.3 | you get two of them. |
| 1:47.1 | There's these huge two a mufflette sandwich or mufflet, I don't know how it's pronounced, from New Orleans, shipped to me. |
| 1:44.4 | And it's this huge, you get two of them. |
| 1:47.1 | There's these huge two-pound nine-inch wagon wheels of like just fucking delight and wonder. |
| 1:54.6 | It's meats and cheeses and olive oil and olives. |
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