July 18, 2025 • 14 mins
We all have stories we tell ourselves about who our kids will become, how our relationships will unfold, and what life is supposed to look like. But what happens when reality tears those stories apart?
In this week’s episode of Hi Pod! I’m Dad, James Guttman shares a raw, honest reflection on the life he never expected. From a divorce during the pandemic to parenting a nonverbal son with autism, James opens up about the imagined futures he had to grieve and the unexpected beauty he found in letting them go.
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💬 The emotional centerpiece? A memory about almost giving his son the middle name “Charming” so he could impress girls at bars one day. It’s a funny, touching reminder of the hopes we place on unborn children — and how healing it can be to release those hopes when life takes a different turn.
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Hi Pod, I am Dad.
He's not just Hi Dad, he's mydad.
James Gutman, just hi dad, he'smy dad.
James gutman, folks, jamesgutman, it's high pot, I'm dad.
Welcome back to another editionof the podcast.
(00:35):
It is friday, it is july the18th.
It is one day shy of a greatday.
It is 2025.
Thank you so much for taking thetime to check us out whether
Whether you found me on Audible,spotify, anywhere they put
podcasts.
I'm there HiPodOnDadcom all thearchives.
You can see me on YouTube atHiBlogOnDad.
That's our channel.
All the shows are going outthere, as well, as you know,
(00:56):
videos and things that I haveavailable.
So thank you for the support.
Thank you for checking outHiWorldOnDad, my new book.
It is available digital audioprint anywhere you can get books
.
You can get that book.
If you get it, do me a favor,leave a review, tell people
about it.
It means a lot.
And, of course, the bloghighblogomdadcom, going since
(01:16):
February of 2017, you guys havewatched my kids grow up in front
of you, as I've shared storiesand you you know my son was five
, my daughter was eight and nowyou know they're like 85 years
old each.
So it's pretty, it's prettyshocking when you do it and I
got to tell you, when I talkabout things changing and the
(01:37):
changes that have happened inlife this week, we're, you know,
two examples of that in theblog, where I talk about
subjects that I mean it's insaneto think of how much has
happened since I started thisblog.
The first one on Monday I wroteabout my divorce, which I don't
talk too much about.
People didn't know if I wasmarried.
I've seen that question before.
People have asked me about it.
I actually got divorced duringmy time writing this blog.
(02:00):
When I started writing it, Iwas still married for a few
years actually.
My separation was in 2019.
My divorce was in 2020.
And I got to tell you, man,writing this blog and getting a
chance to share stories aboutLucas and share stories about
myself and things that I'venoticed, that helped me out a
lot.
I think it was a gooddistraction.
It kind of, you know, gates youthrough some hard times.
(02:22):
We all go through some hardstuff.
So you know, whenever I talk inhere about how you guys have
helped me out and how it's been,you know, cathartic and just
helpful to be able to share mystories and take my mind off of
things that maybe sometimesweren't so great.
I meant it.
So thank you, it meant a lot tome.
(02:43):
It's been helpful and I do urgeanyone and I talked about this
a few weeks ago, on 4th of July,where I said if you're at a
barbecue, let people ask youquestions.
Sometimes it's helpful to talk,to tell stories, to explain
things to people, to tell themyou know where you're coming
from.
Get it out.
(03:03):
When I began this blog, I hadstories in my head, lived in my
head, things that bothered me,and even in this book man I
talked about you know the MusicTogether story.
You know, if you've read HighWorld, I'm Bad.
You know what I'm talking about.
I brought Lucas to MusicTogether class right as he was
being diagnosed, and it was hellon earth.
It was like really coming togrips with a lot of like
(03:23):
realities and learning thingsabout who he was in real time in
front of people, in front ofpeople watching me in a circle.
It was a circle and they're allkind of like watching and I'm
like, oh my God, and thosestories lived in my head and
they killed me.
I didn't have anyone to tell Iwould try to tell people stories
in real life.
I'd be like, hey, let me tellyou something about Lucas.
And you couldn't get halfwaythrough before they'd be like,
(03:45):
oh, that's a hard story, that'sa sad story.
I'm like, no, it's not, can Ijust finish it please?
And when I first startedgetting to write the blog, I was
so excited because I could tellthe entire story and get it out
and no one could stop me.
You know, by the end of it Iwas just done.
(04:09):
I got it out.
And a funny thing happened isonce I would tell some of these
stories, they'd be out of myhead and I wouldn't think about
them as much.
I mean, I'm talking, I wentover things over and over and he
did this and this happened andthat happened.
And once you take thatnarrative and you're writing it
down and you're not just tellingit to invisible people in the
shower, it helps.
So I got a chance to do that.
So, yeah, writing about mydivorce and getting to address
the fact that people do ask, youknow, did having, you know, a
son with special needs did thataffect your marriage?
(04:30):
Like, affect, yeah, cause adivorce?
No, it didn't cause a divorce.
It was.
You know, it was a challengeand it's something that some
couples get through and somedon't, and unfortunately we
didn't get through it.
But and it's something thatsome couples get through and
some don't, and unfortunately wedidn't get through it, but
there's some people who will butno way was it the thing that
made it happen and no way was itsomething that, you know, no
(04:53):
one had any idea about until,you know, lucas showed up.
No, there were red flags andtriggers and things to worry
about.
But just having a child, youknow that might be a challenge
is no different than anychallenge, whether it was a
financial issue, whether it was,you know, a sick relative or
anything.
Once you find out you're not onthe same page, you're not in
(05:13):
sync, it changes some of yourfuture aspirations and that's
kind of what happens.
So I got a chance to writeabout that on Monday.
But that's a big example.
That's something that was ahuge difference from when I
first began writing this bloguntil now.
The one on Wednesday, which isabout grieving, that one was.
That's a big example ofsomething that not only has
(05:38):
changed through the years, butsomething that I feel very
strongly about having to writeabout.
So I wrote about grieving formy son's future that I may have
imagined, prior to him, havingautism or being diagnosed with
autism, and it's weird because Idon't.
It's hard to remember lifebefore Lucas.
(06:00):
It's hard to remember lifebefore kids in general, but
Lucas especially, because I feellike through the years I've
learned what autism is, I'velearned to accept, I've learned
to appreciate it.
I've learned what autism is.
I've learned to accept, I'velearned to appreciate it.
I can't remember a time where Iwasn't appreciative and
accepting of it at all.
I knew it existed.
I remember it.
It coincided a lot with myquintuple bypass, which, again,
(06:21):
I can't remember life beforethat.
I don't remember eating meatand not caring and smoking or
whatever, all these things thatI don't even come close to doing
anymore, all gone.
And then I remembered a storyand I wrote about prior to Lucas
being born, trying to decidewhat his name was going to be,
(06:42):
and I love this story and thestory kind of like takes me back
a little bit because I rememberit specifically.
I remember talking about it, Iremember all the things that we
did with it and I know for afact that it was before Lucas.
So it's a memory of a timebefore him where I distinctly
remember dealing with the ideaof having a son and the story
(07:03):
that I told in the blog, andI'll tell you guys here.
I wanted Lucas's name, hismiddle name, to be charming.
I thought it would be great, Ithought it was cute, I thought
it was a smart idea.
Why, you ask?
Well, here was my argument.
Here's what I said.
If I make Lucas's middle nameCharming one day when he's at a
bar talking to a girl and hegoes to her and he goes hey,
(07:27):
baby, my middle name is Charming.
And he goes hey, baby, mymiddle name is Charming.
And then she goes, becausewe're on Long Island, she goes
get the hell out of here, yourname's not Charming.
And he goes yeah, baby, watchthis.
Boom, he takes out his license,he holds it up.
It says Charming, everyoneloves him.
They clap, he gets all theladies Go Lucas.
(07:48):
Of course, this was before Lucashad autism.
This was before Lucas was born.
This is before I figured hemight not talk to a girl at a
bar and this is before I figuredhe might not drive.
This was a different person inmy imagination than he ended up
becoming, and I think about thatand I realized then but just
(08:11):
remembering the story that therewas a time where I pictured a
different person.
So, finding out that Lucas hadautism, realizing that he might
be nonverbal which he is nowtoday I had to let go of this.
You know, I mean kind of ascumbag at the bar going hey,
baby, I'm charming.
And man, I said it as a joke,don't get me wrong, I'm not
(08:37):
sitting here going.
I wish he was a douchebag.
But when he's a baby man, whenyou're a dad and you're going to
have a son, you think of thingslike that.
You're like one day I'm goingto get the ladies.
You're going to be like, hey,lady and Um.
And Lucas doesn't like that.
Lucas doesn't try to get thelady, lucas gets the ladies.
Man, he gets ladies becausehe's adorable and people, oh,
he's so cute, um.
But now Lucas doesn't, uh, he's, he's not in the players club,
(08:58):
so to speak.
He doesn't go out there and tryto, you know, try to talk them
back to his his crib, as theysay.
But that was a different person.
That's somebody that I had tolet go of, somebody that I
envisioned being in my life oneday.
The boy that I got and the manhe'll become is one of the best
(09:19):
people in the world.
Lucas is sweet and kind and,for all of his challenges and
there are challenges Lucas haspronounced needs.
I talked about that in thedivorce article.
It's something that I thinkit's brushed under the rug.
People go oh, you're sopositive about your son, you
know.
But what about parents who havekids who have higher needs than
him?
I don't know.
Man, it's not.
(09:40):
Lucas has some prettysubstantial needs.
Like there's kids, obviously wehave more going on than him.
There's some that have lessgoing on than him, but for the
most part, lucas is consideredlow functioning, severe.
So the person that he is is theperson that I love.
I love who he is.
I don't regret who he didn'tbecome, but I had to get to know
(10:01):
who he is and that was thewhole idea of grieving Like
there was no sense of like.
You know, when I found out hehad autism, nobody came to me
with a checklist and said thisis who your kid's going to be,
and then I was sad oh my God, Idon't want this kid.
It wasn't like that, it wasmore like they come to you and
they go.
He has autism, I go.
Well, he has autism, I go.
What does that mean?
They go?
I don't know.
I go well, but will he hug me?
(10:22):
Some kids hug, I don't know.
Will he talk?
Maybe Talk to him.
Nobody tells you anything.
It's the worst when you firsthear the word autism.
Nobody helps you understandwhat it means, because nobody
knows what it's going to meanfor you.
So they just go.
Hmm, so I wasn't grievingbecause I didn't want him.
I was grieving what I didn'tknow, because no one can tell me
(10:44):
an answer.
All I knew was it's not goingto be this, he's not going to be
at a bar going, hey, babycharming.
That's not happening.
So I just had to let go ofcertain things and a lot of
parents in my position, you letgo of certain things.
You're not necessarily grievingthat this is your kid.
You're grieving this idea of akid that, like you know all
these things, you're being told,well, that probably not going
to be that, probably not goingto be that.
(11:05):
Well, what is it going to be?
Well, we don't know, butprobably not that.
And it's important for me to toexpress that to you guys, cause
I feel like being somebody whowrites about autism positivity,
being a father who appreciateshis son because of his autism,
it would be easy for me topretend like it's always been
like that, like I've always.
I've always known, you didn'tknow, you don't know about your
(11:28):
kid.
My kid's great Life is what itis.
It's about learning.
It's about you know, findingout who these people in your
life are.
And I had to take time to findout who Lucas was, and once I
did, I was so happy with him.
But it's important now for meto go back in time and be honest
with you, be honest with myselfabout my fears and my worries,
(11:51):
because if I'm not, then whatgood is that?
What good is this blog, whatgood is speaking to you if I'm
not going to be as honest aspossible?
So that's how honest I can be.
So I was really glad that I gota chance to write it.
I get a chance to kind of goback in time, remember this
moment.
I hadn't thought about thecharming thing in a while.
I thought about that recently.
I think I was watching.
I used to love Sons of Anarchy.
(12:11):
A lot of it came from Sons ofAnarchy.
The town is called Charming.
So I think I it.
I shared it with you guys andhopefully, if you read that, if
you're a parent, you'restruggling right now.
Maybe you're going through anearly diagnosis.
Maybe something's happening inyour life where you're trying to
come to grips with the future.
(12:33):
Maybe you could read about someof what I went through.
You can know where I'm at nowand I don't know.
Maybe there's some hope.
There's good stuff all aroundthe corner.
If you have a kid, honestly,who's even half as cool as my
kid, you will be a very luckyparent.
Lucas is the best, my daughteris the best, we're the best,
everything's the best.
You guys are the best, and whatmakes you the best?
(12:54):
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(13:14):
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Hi Pod, I am Dad.
He's not just Hi Dad, he's mydad.
James Gutman, just hi dad, he'smy dad.
James gutman, folks, jamesgutman, it's high pot, I'm dad.
Welcome back to another editionof the podcast.
(00:35):
It is friday, it is july the18th.
It is one day shy of a greatday.
It is 2025.
Thank you so much for taking thetime to check us out whether
Whether you found me on Audible,spotify, anywhere they put
podcasts.
I'm there HiPodOnDadcom all thearchives.
You can see me on YouTube atHiBlogOnDad.
That's our channel.
All the shows are going outthere, as well, as you know,
(00:56):
videos and things that I haveavailable.
So thank you for the support.
Thank you for checking outHiWorldOnDad, my new book.
It is available digital audioprint anywhere you can get books
.
You can get that book.
If you get it, do me a favor,leave a review, tell people
about it.
It means a lot.
And, of course, the bloghighblogomdadcom, going since
(01:16):
February of 2017, you guys havewatched my kids grow up in front
of you, as I've shared storiesand you you know my son was five
, my daughter was eight and nowyou know they're like 85 years
old each.
So it's pretty, it's prettyshocking when you do it and I
got to tell you, when I talkabout things changing and the
(01:37):
changes that have happened inlife this week, we're, you know,
two examples of that in theblog, where I talk about
subjects that I mean it's insaneto think of how much has
happened since I started thisblog.
The first one on Monday I wroteabout my divorce, which I don't
talk too much about.
People didn't know if I wasmarried.
I've seen that question before.
People have asked me about it.
I actually got divorced duringmy time writing this blog.
(02:00):
When I started writing it, Iwas still married for a few
years actually.
My separation was in 2019.
My divorce was in 2020.
And I got to tell you, man,writing this blog and getting a
chance to share stories aboutLucas and share stories about
myself and things that I'venoticed, that helped me out a
lot.
I think it was a gooddistraction.
It kind of, you know, gates youthrough some hard times.
(02:22):
We all go through some hardstuff.
So you know, whenever I talk inhere about how you guys have
helped me out and how it's been,you know, cathartic and just
helpful to be able to share mystories and take my mind off of
things that maybe sometimesweren't so great.
I meant it.
So thank you, it meant a lot tome.
(02:43):
It's been helpful and I do urgeanyone and I talked about this
a few weeks ago, on 4th of July,where I said if you're at a
barbecue, let people ask youquestions.
Sometimes it's helpful to talk,to tell stories, to explain
things to people, to tell themyou know where you're coming
from.
Get it out.
(03:03):
When I began this blog, I hadstories in my head, lived in my
head, things that bothered me,and even in this book man I
talked about you know the MusicTogether story.
You know, if you've read HighWorld, I'm Bad.
You know what I'm talking about.
I brought Lucas to MusicTogether class right as he was
being diagnosed, and it was hellon earth.
It was like really coming togrips with a lot of like
(03:23):
realities and learning thingsabout who he was in real time in
front of people, in front ofpeople watching me in a circle.
It was a circle and they're allkind of like watching and I'm
like, oh my God, and thosestories lived in my head and
they killed me.
I didn't have anyone to tell Iwould try to tell people stories
in real life.
I'd be like, hey, let me tellyou something about Lucas.
And you couldn't get halfwaythrough before they'd be like,
(03:45):
oh, that's a hard story, that'sa sad story.
I'm like, no, it's not, can Ijust finish it please?
And when I first startedgetting to write the blog, I was
so excited because I could tellthe entire story and get it out
and no one could stop me.
You know, by the end of it Iwas just done.
(04:09):
I got it out.
And a funny thing happened isonce I would tell some of these
stories, they'd be out of myhead and I wouldn't think about
them as much.
I mean, I'm talking, I wentover things over and over and he
did this and this happened andthat happened.
And once you take thatnarrative and you're writing it
down and you're not just tellingit to invisible people in the
shower, it helps.
So I got a chance to do that.
So, yeah, writing about mydivorce and getting to address
the fact that people do ask, youknow, did having, you know, a
son with special needs did thataffect your marriage?
(04:30):
Like, affect, yeah, cause adivorce?
No, it didn't cause a divorce.
It was.
You know, it was a challengeand it's something that some
couples get through and somedon't, and unfortunately we
didn't get through it.
But and it's something thatsome couples get through and
some don't, and unfortunately wedidn't get through it, but
there's some people who will butno way was it the thing that
made it happen and no way was itsomething that, you know, no
(04:53):
one had any idea about until,you know, lucas showed up.
No, there were red flags andtriggers and things to worry
about.
But just having a child, youknow that might be a challenge
is no different than anychallenge, whether it was a
financial issue, whether it was,you know, a sick relative or
anything.
Once you find out you're not onthe same page, you're not in
(05:13):
sync, it changes some of yourfuture aspirations and that's
kind of what happens.
So I got a chance to writeabout that on Monday.
But that's a big example.
That's something that was ahuge difference from when I
first began writing this bloguntil now.
The one on Wednesday, which isabout grieving, that one was.
That's a big example ofsomething that not only has
(05:38):
changed through the years, butsomething that I feel very
strongly about having to writeabout.
So I wrote about grieving formy son's future that I may have
imagined, prior to him, havingautism or being diagnosed with
autism, and it's weird because Idon't.
It's hard to remember lifebefore Lucas.
(06:00):
It's hard to remember lifebefore kids in general, but
Lucas especially, because I feellike through the years I've
learned what autism is, I'velearned to accept, I've learned
to appreciate it.
I've learned what autism is.
I've learned to accept, I'velearned to appreciate it.
I can't remember a time where Iwasn't appreciative and
accepting of it at all.
I knew it existed.
I remember it.
It coincided a lot with myquintuple bypass, which, again,
(06:21):
I can't remember life beforethat.
I don't remember eating meatand not caring and smoking or
whatever, all these things thatI don't even come close to doing
anymore, all gone.
And then I remembered a storyand I wrote about prior to Lucas
being born, trying to decidewhat his name was going to be,
(06:42):
and I love this story and thestory kind of like takes me back
a little bit because I rememberit specifically.
I remember talking about it, Iremember all the things that we
did with it and I know for afact that it was before Lucas.
So it's a memory of a timebefore him where I distinctly
remember dealing with the ideaof having a son and the story
(07:03):
that I told in the blog, andI'll tell you guys here.
I wanted Lucas's name, hismiddle name, to be charming.
I thought it would be great, Ithought it was cute, I thought
it was a smart idea.
Why, you ask?
Well, here was my argument.
Here's what I said.
If I make Lucas's middle nameCharming one day when he's at a
bar talking to a girl and hegoes to her and he goes hey,
(07:27):
baby, my middle name is Charming.
And he goes hey, baby, mymiddle name is Charming.
And then she goes, becausewe're on Long Island, she goes
get the hell out of here, yourname's not Charming.
And he goes yeah, baby, watchthis.
Boom, he takes out his license,he holds it up.
It says Charming, everyoneloves him.
They clap, he gets all theladies Go Lucas.
(07:48):
Of course, this was before Lucashad autism.
This was before Lucas was born.
This is before I figured hemight not talk to a girl at a
bar and this is before I figuredhe might not drive.
This was a different person inmy imagination than he ended up
becoming, and I think about thatand I realized then but just
(08:11):
remembering the story that therewas a time where I pictured a
different person.
So, finding out that Lucas hadautism, realizing that he might
be nonverbal which he is nowtoday I had to let go of this.
You know, I mean kind of ascumbag at the bar going hey,
baby, I'm charming.
And man, I said it as a joke,don't get me wrong, I'm not
(08:37):
sitting here going.
I wish he was a douchebag.
But when he's a baby man, whenyou're a dad and you're going to
have a son, you think of thingslike that.
You're like one day I'm goingto get the ladies.
You're going to be like, hey,lady and Um.
And Lucas doesn't like that.
Lucas doesn't try to get thelady, lucas gets the ladies.
Man, he gets ladies becausehe's adorable and people, oh,
he's so cute, um.
But now Lucas doesn't, uh, he's, he's not in the players club,
(08:58):
so to speak.
He doesn't go out there and tryto, you know, try to talk them
back to his his crib, as theysay.
But that was a different person.
That's somebody that I had tolet go of, somebody that I
envisioned being in my life oneday.
The boy that I got and the manhe'll become is one of the best
(09:19):
people in the world.
Lucas is sweet and kind and,for all of his challenges and
there are challenges Lucas haspronounced needs.
I talked about that in thedivorce article.
It's something that I thinkit's brushed under the rug.
People go oh, you're sopositive about your son, you
know.
But what about parents who havekids who have higher needs than
him?
I don't know.
Man, it's not.
(09:40):
Lucas has some prettysubstantial needs.
Like there's kids, obviously wehave more going on than him.
There's some that have lessgoing on than him, but for the
most part, lucas is consideredlow functioning, severe.
So the person that he is is theperson that I love.
I love who he is.
I don't regret who he didn'tbecome, but I had to get to know
(10:01):
who he is and that was thewhole idea of grieving Like
there was no sense of like.
You know, when I found out hehad autism, nobody came to me
with a checklist and said thisis who your kid's going to be,
and then I was sad oh my God, Idon't want this kid.
It wasn't like that, it wasmore like they come to you and
they go.
He has autism, I go.
Well, he has autism, I go.
What does that mean?
They go?
I don't know.
I go well, but will he hug me?
(10:22):
Some kids hug, I don't know.
Will he talk?
Maybe Talk to him.
Nobody tells you anything.
It's the worst when you firsthear the word autism.
Nobody helps you understandwhat it means, because nobody
knows what it's going to meanfor you.
So they just go.
Hmm, so I wasn't grievingbecause I didn't want him.
I was grieving what I didn'tknow, because no one can tell me
(10:44):
an answer.
All I knew was it's not goingto be this, he's not going to be
at a bar going, hey, babycharming.
That's not happening.
So I just had to let go ofcertain things and a lot of
parents in my position, you letgo of certain things.
You're not necessarily grievingthat this is your kid.
You're grieving this idea of akid that, like you know all
these things, you're being told,well, that probably not going
to be that, probably not goingto be that.
(11:05):
Well, what is it going to be?
Well, we don't know, butprobably not that.
And it's important for me to toexpress that to you guys, cause
I feel like being somebody whowrites about autism positivity,
being a father who appreciateshis son because of his autism,
it would be easy for me topretend like it's always been
like that, like I've always.
I've always known, you didn'tknow, you don't know about your
(11:28):
kid.
My kid's great Life is what itis.
It's about learning.
It's about you know, findingout who these people in your
life are.
And I had to take time to findout who Lucas was, and once I
did, I was so happy with him.
But it's important now for meto go back in time and be honest
with you, be honest with myselfabout my fears and my worries,
(11:51):
because if I'm not, then whatgood is that?
What good is this blog, whatgood is speaking to you if I'm
not going to be as honest aspossible?
So that's how honest I can be.
So I was really glad that I gota chance to write it.
I get a chance to kind of goback in time, remember this
moment.
I hadn't thought about thecharming thing in a while.
I thought about that recently.
I think I was watching.
I used to love Sons of Anarchy.
(12:11):
A lot of it came from Sons ofAnarchy.
The town is called Charming.
So I think I it.
I shared it with you guys andhopefully, if you read that, if
you're a parent, you'restruggling right now.
Maybe you're going through anearly diagnosis.
Maybe something's happening inyour life where you're trying to
come to grips with the future.
(12:33):
Maybe you could read about someof what I went through.
You can know where I'm at nowand I don't know.
Maybe there's some hope.
There's good stuff all aroundthe corner.
If you have a kid, honestly,who's even half as cool as my
kid, you will be a very luckyparent.
Lucas is the best, my daughteris the best, we're the best,
everything's the best.
You guys are the best, and whatmakes you the best?
(12:54):
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(13:14):
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