230 - Dr Mel Houser - From Shame to Belonging: Making Room for Every Brain

I sit down with Dr Mel Houser to rethink neurodiversity as a normal fact of human life and to name how shame, masking, and burnout can build when the world expects one way of being. We connect those realities to Long Covid and ME/CFS, showing how access needs, cognitive pacing, and community support can change what recovery and participation look like. • Neurodiversity as the full range of human brains, not a rare exception • Why “one size fits all” environments create struggle a...