Melina
Host & Neurodiversity Advocate
Melina is a NASM-certified personal trainer and nutrition coach, a homeschooling mom of twins, and a late-diagnosed AuDHD woman who found out she was neurodivergent while trying to figure out her kids. She is perimenopausal, perpetually behind on laundry, and deeply uninterested in pretending any of this is linear. Late to Everything Except Puberty is the show she needed and couldn’t find.
Catch Up… We’ve Only Just Started
Episode 1: But He Makes Eye Contact
“But he makes eye contact. He loves hugs. He’s so smart.”
That was my first reaction when a therapist suggested my son get an autism assessment. I want to talk about that reaction because I think a lot of us have had some version of it.
This episode is about where our picture of autism and ADHD comes from, why that picture is so incomplete, and what happens when you go looking for answers for your kids and accidentally find yourself instead.
Episode 2: The Empath with No Filter
Have you ever been the person everyone brings their heaviest things to without having any idea how to put any of it down? This episode is about what happens when you feel everything, trust everyone, and have absolutely no filter for any of it. The ND brain, hyper-empathy, and what it finally feels like to care without carrying.
Episode 3: Performing Normal (and Fooling No One)
You were never lying. You were never being fake. You were just a kid trying to get through the day without getting it wrong.
This episode is about masking, the thousand small adjustments ND people make every day to seem like they fit. Where it starts, what it costs, and what it looks like when you finally, slowly begin to take it off.
Spoiler: it looks like Lego, crochet, and a Doctor Who hoodie over a Hamilton shirt.
