Dr. Mel Houser

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315 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2024 last heard Jul 2024

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 393: Dr. Mel Houser on Navigating the Healthcare System as a Neurodivergent Person · 23 Jul 2024 podcast

And that kind of sleep deprivation and dysregulation and like while also homeschooling my then three-year-old while listening to your podcast, that was my life.

I would say is that probably for the last two or so years at my previous job, my clinical practice had really evolved towards supporting neurodivergent kids and adults, often multi-generational families.

So that happened already.

And what I was finding was like, so not only was I like learning about my own brain and learning about my child's brain.

But I was also recognizing that my patients, their needs were not met by like all of the broken systems.

It wasn't just health care.

You know, they were struggling to access their education.

They were struggling to access jobs.

They were lonely.

And I remember this one day I was seeing an eight year old sweet little love who loved Pokemon and had no friends and was being bullied at school.

And then right after that, I saw a nine-year-old autistic child who also loved Pokemon and had no friends and was being bullied at school.

And I was like, what is this?

What is this madness that I can't introduce these sweet little loves and have them live happily ever after in community?

And it just made no sense to me that healthcare was treated so separately from the rest of life.

And it felt like, all right, well, in order to really meet my patient's needs, I have to break through the constraints of the traditional healthcare system.

And just, you know, think about what makes sense.

And we have so many people who all these different domains of their life are not being addressed.

Like what could it look like for healthcare to be more than medical care?

So many things.

There's a literature based on this about the barriers.

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