9/19/2026: The healthcare system consistently fails neurodivergent people. What happens when they decide to build something better? I explore that question with Dr. Mel Houser, a board-certified family physician, founder and executive director of All Brains Belong VT, and author of A Failure of Imagination: How the Healthcare System Fails Neurodivergent People, and What We’re Doing Instead.
At 37, Mel learned they are autistic, and also ADHD, dyslexic, dyscalculic, and dyspraxic. That experience, alongside what patients and community members shared, shaped an organization built on a simple premise: access comes first, and the people closest to the problem should shape the solutions.
We talk about what it looks like when care is designed around the people who need it most, and why so many of us spend years being handed the wrong explanation for what’s happening in our bodies. If you have ever left an appointment feeling unheard, or worked hard to be understood by a system that wasn’t built with you in mind, I think this conversation will land. – Kristen Hovet, Host, The Other Autism podcast
