The Founders of
Neurodivergent Friends™  

Megan Hill

Founder of Neurodivergent Friends™
Megan@neurodivergentfriends.org
850-938-3233

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:

• Fort Cavazos Advocacy and Support Network Admin, supporting over 1,900 families

• Volunteered with CASA of Bell and Coryell Counties as a Guardian ad Litem

• Supported Texas Parent to Parent as a speaker and mentor to other caregivers

• Participated as a member and previous board member of the Bell County Committee for People with Disabilities and supported their social media outreach after stepping down as vice chair to focus on Neurodivergent Friends™ until moving away. 

• Served on the Patient and Family Partnership Council at Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center until moving. 

• Volunteered on the Adolescent Committee for HOTROSC until moving. 

• Supported inclusive programming and events as a volunteer with the Harker Heights Library, continues to facilitate activities from her new location with the assistance of dedicated Neurodivergent Friends™  volunteers.

Recognition and Awards

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

• Volunteer of Merit Award, Fort Cavazos
  Presented with the Meritorious Service Medal, April 2025

• Volunteer of the Year, 1st Army Division West, 166th Aviation Brigade
  Presented with the Public Service Commendation Medal, April 2025

• Parent Leader of the Year, Texas Parent to Parent, July 2024

• Excellence in Caregiving (Hearts of Gold), Morgan’s Wonderland, May 2025

• Advocacy Achievement Award, CASA of Bell and Coryell Counties, November 2022. 

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. 

Andrew Hill 

Director 
Founding Member of Neurodivergent Friends™
Andy@Neurodivergent Friends.org

Known as Andy, our treasurer is recently retired Army. He has been married to his best friend Megan Hill for 22 years, and together, they have two adult children. At home, Andrew navigates and supports the dynamics of living with a predominantly autistic family, but his Army career left him with his own neurodivergent challenges.

Andrew actively supports Megan's endeavors at multiple nonprofit organizations. Before moving to Oregon he was a full time soldier and student and volunteered his time with Texas Parent to Parent as a parent mentor and speaker, is a Harker Heights Library Volunteer, and actively contributes to Neurodivergent Friends™ to support and uplift Neurodivergent individuals. Andrew believes in empowering Autistic individuals and ensuring their voices are heard.

"There aren't bad times, just good times you must work harder for," Andrew reflects, emphasizing resilience and dedication in navigating life's challenges alongside his family.