Megan Hill

Founder of Neurodivergent Friends™

Megan Hill is an Autistic and ADHD (AuDHD) adult with physical disabilities. She is the founder of Neurodivergent Friends™ and a long-time caregiver who has helped raise multiple disabled and neurodivergent adult children while navigating the complex realities of Tricare, Medicaid, and long-term care as a military family.

Building Home Health from Experience

Megan’s lived experience includes founding Hill Home Health (HHH), a self-directed model of in-home care. While her family qualified for nursing, attendant, and respite care through Medicaid, Tricare, and other programs over the years, Megan often had to find, recruit, and refer providers herself. She would locate nurses and other staff, then work with agencies to secure their employment. When necessary, she switched agencies to help workers receive higher pay or better hours.

Megan advocated for employment laws to be followed and fought to ensure schedules worked for the providers' own families. Over the years, she developed a high level of skill in interpreting policy, identifying gaps in programs, and devising creative and ethical approaches to accessing needed services. She is known for turning a “no” into a “yes” by understanding and navigating systems that are overwhelming for most families.

Community Service and Volunteer Leadership

Megan is deeply involved in disability advocacy and serves or served in multiple volunteer roles throughout Central Texas. She has served:

Recognition and Awards

Several organizations have formally recognized Megan’s work. Her volunteer awards include:

The medals from Fort Cavazos are especially meaningful to Megan as tangible recognition of the time and effort she has invested in supporting others.

Guiding Philosophy and Work at Neurodivergent Friends™

Megan leads with honesty, self-reflection, and a deep belief in mutual support. She is focused on building programs based on real needs and desires within the community, not just ideas or appearances. Volunteers at Neurodivergent Friends™ are encouraged to create offerings based on their strengths and passions. This helps prevent burnout and takes pains to avoid the high costs that often limit grassroots disability programming by partnering with other agencies and using borrowed spaces.

After years of masking and blaming herself for systemic barriers, Megan now focuses on unlearning internalized ableism. She works to model healthy boundaries and support others in doing the same. Her experience as a home health recipient taught her hard lessons about vulnerability and exploitation, and she uses that insight to help others avoid the traps her family once faced. When a family is desperate for care and assistance, they will put up with things that are completely unreasonable in a typical workplace. 

Megan was diagnosed with Autism and ADHD as an adult after struggling for years to find a provider she could afford. That experience drives one of Neurodivergent Friends™' key programs. Today, the organization partners with a trusted local provider who offers discounted evaluations to community members referred through their network.

Megan believes in building safe, accessible programs where everyone feels welcome, without feeling the need to mask or perform, realizing that it is hard to turn it off. Masking robs neurodivergent individuals of their identity and dignity. Her focus on family consultations is first to identify the resources that will have the most significant impact in relieving stressors and supporting the family, and to assist them in applying for or finding those services. Her work is grounded in reality, shaped by lived experience, and strengthened by collaboration with other families and advocates.

New Beginnings

Megan recently relocated her family to Oregon as part of her husband's military retirement after nearly 22 years of service. Oregon has significantly more robust services for adults with IDD, and she intends to start a new chapter of Neurodivergent Friends™ once her move is settled.