How to Make Health Care Neurodiversity-Affirming, with Dr. Mel Houser

That's a roadmap.

A roadmap.

That's all we need.

When I say we, I mean people like you and me.

But it would also help the berries of the world.

Who,

you know, I don't know.

I just think, again, this is something that helps one person helps everyone.

Exactly.

You know, much like curb cuts help people who are pushing strollers and shopping carts, not just only people who are using wheelchairs.

Yes.

And it really does demand, and you alluded to this earlier, a mindset change.

You know, what keeps coming to mind is... another one of our favorite guests, Becca Laurie Hector, and Becca talking about, I didn't even know how to ask for help until I was an older teenager.

Nobody taught me that there's this concept of asking for help and that it's okay to ask for help.

Now, I'm not... necessarily focusing on the health piece, but just this sense, this mindset of self-determination.

And it just kind of struck me that even when I go to a medical setting now, again, for it might be a regular checkup, I feel like a kid going to the principal's office.

You know, okay, what did my body do wrong?

I went to the dentist yesterday and that's all it was.

You go in and you're just getting shame flung at you.

You're not doing it right.

You're not doing it well enough.

You're not brushing and flossing well enough.

You've got buildup.

Why would I come back to this? I come back because I can cortically override it.

Gotta go.