Late to Everything Except Puberty with Melina

Getting a late diagnosis is supposed to feel like relief, and it does... Then the grief hits.This episode is about what nobody tells you comes after the answer. The friendships that didn't work because nobody taught you the skills you needed. The therapy that helped but never quite got to the root. The fawn response, and why you spent so many years making yourself easy to keep for people who weren't worth keeping.Late to Everything Except Puberty with MelinaEpisode 5: The Late Diagnosis Grief

I started dieting at eleven. I was told I'd be prettier if I lost weight at five years old. I spent decades punishing my body instead of living in it.Then at 17, I tried taekwondo, and everything I thought I knew about my body turned out to be wrong.This episode is about the long, complicated road from hating your body to understanding it. Yo-yo dieting, interoception, a 2020 health scare that changed everything, and what I learned about my own body that eventually made me a coach.Late to Everything Except Puberty with MelinaEp. 4: The First Time My Body Surprised Me

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.Late to Everything Except Puberty with MelinaEpisode 3: Performing Normal (And Fooling No One)

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.Late to Everything Except Puberty with Melina Episode 2: The Empath With No Filter

"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.Late to Everything Except Puberty with Melina Episode 1: But He Makes Eye Contact