Welcome to another bonus episode of How We Made Your Mother. We're hard at work on season two,

which will launch very, very soon, and we're using this space now to share some appearances of the

team on other great podcasts. And today we bring you Craig Thomas's appearance on hyperfocus.

Hyperfocus is a show that zeroes in on what fascinates us about ADHD, mental health, and learning.

On this episode, Craig will talk about his son Elliot, who was born with Jacobson syndrome,

a genetic condition causing physical and developmental disabilities.

When Elliot was born, Craig's career was taking off with how I met your mother, and he says,

I was living in our drama show at home and then driving to work and doing a sitcom. And his upcoming novel,

That's Not How It Happened, is based in part on his family's experience. Check out Craig

now on hyperfocus. It's strange how we as a society don't have more and better answers for what adult

lives look like for people with disabilities.

People with disabilities are human.

They have parents and families who are humans and love them and deserve respect and

decency and humanity, dignity.

That's Craig Thomas.

You might not know his name, but you definitely know his work.

He co-created How I Met Your Mother, and he's also been a writer on American Dad,

The Late Show with David Letterman, made music for Sesame Street, and even written for The New Yorker.

There are really colorful, wonderful ways to describe something that is absurd, stupid, ridiculous, hypocritical, hapless.

There are so many funny ways to talk about those things without resorting to this incredibly easy,

punching down, useless, like, outdated way of calling something those things.

Like, think be more.

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