There are things we automatically attribute to men and women, some innocuous, some more restrictive than it may seem on the surface. In a same-sex couple, you'd think those roles would be thrown out the window, but it's remarkable how often we fall back onto men's business and women's business. In this episode, we talk about Paul's experience with a working dad's group (and why Bunnings is considered a fatherhood milestone) and we name drop @annabelcrabb, @chat10looks3 and @toopeaspod to explore why we should rethink our gendered assumptions.


The Rainbow Dissection: Gender Roles

What started out as a conversation about what to expect of a child with autism broadens out into talking about being considerate to one another, stimming, Individual Learning Plans and anxiety management in general. We give some advice at the end too, but don't take us too seriously. We have opinions like everyone else has. Oh, and there's a weird gap of silence near the beginning of the episode - that's not you, it's us. Paul accidentally name drops one of his children and couldn't figure out how to smoothly replace it, so he just edited it out instead. Sorry.


Spectrum Analysis: Expectations and Perfectionism

Another episode in the chronicles of Jake and Matt. This time, we talk about spending a month in India, the piles of red tape involved in bringing your own children home, and why doctors can make the worst parents. 


His & His-tory: India and Back Again

Language is a minefield and choosing the right words is as much about cultural knowledge as it is about intent. In this episode, we analyse the words "normal", "f****t" and "same-sex attracted", amongst many others, to determine whether inappropriate words are born that way or made that way. So you know, we've marked this episode as having explicit language, but we don't actually swear. We only drop that other f-word and we try to do it in the least offensive way possible.


Gay-ly Life: May Contain Inappropriate Language

Thanks to @aspergerssyndromeawareness on Facebook for a list of the positives of autism. We discuss the benefits of brutal honesty, creative problem solving and an attention to detail, focussing on how any personality trait, when channeled the right way, can be a positive for individuals with autism and the people around them.


The Atypical Rainbow