meg wolf

How did you get involved in Neurodiverse Connections?

I was the one who dragged Shannon to pottery. Next session, Marcee showed up. Then Shannon strong-armed Robin into coming, and the rest, as they say, is history.

I'd known for 2 years that my oldest daughter is autistic and saw first-hand during pandemic homeschooling how profoundly difficult her PDA profile made school for her. I had also recently received my own ADHD diagnosis (at age 46!). So, I did what I always do to make sense of things– I started learning everything I could about neurodiversity. The more I learned, the more I realized how little I had known about it before.

In the last 18 years, scientists have discovered so much about the brain that almost ALL the current information is new to EVERYONE, especially as it applies to girls and women, and other marginalized groups. I was utterly fascinated! It occurred to me that I was actually LIVING this neurodivergent life and barely knew anything about it– how many other people were as unaware as I? Obviously, I had a new special interest and a new calling— yippee!!

MEG'S STORY

So here's some more background info. It's written in 3rd person for some reason, as if I was pretending someone else was fascinated by me and that I didn't actually write this myself. Interesting. Marcee, you're a therapist. Do we need to talk?

Meg grew up overseas, and came back to the States in 6th grade. She lived in the Chicago suburbs, was a camp counselor in SC, attended a year of boarding school in Massachusetts, went to college in MN, studied theatre in London, worked and performed in Minneapolis, and then moved to LA to act full time. She married a hilarious brilliant man, and with him by her side she worked on-camera in LA for 12 years, rescued dogs, traveled, and talked about moving up to Bainbridge Island to raise their children… sometime.

Then one day, Meg was making an Olive Garden commercial. It was 12 weeks after delivering her first daughter and Meg had started the day nursing her infant girl. 3 hours later, Meg sat on a soundstage in Hollywood, across the table from a 23-year old actress playing her on-camera daughter. Meg decided her life was too strange and it was time to make some changes.