DEEP DIVE: Meg Zucker on Empowering Kids with Differences and Disabilities

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What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Kids & Family, Comedy, Parenting

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This Deep Dive series is about embracing the joys and acknowledging the challenges that come with raising kids with differences and disabilities. How do we celebrate and encourage kids with disabilities and differences, without letting our fears and preconceptions dictate what we think they can do? How do parents of kids with less understanding of differences and disabilities allow for children's natural curiosity? Meg Zucker, author of the book ⁠Born Extraordinary: Empowering Children with Differences & Disabilities⁠, was born with a genetic condition called ectrodactyly. She is also the mother of three children, two of whom share this difference. Meg is also the founder and president of Don’t Hide It, Flaunt It, a non-profit with the mission of advancing understanding, tolerance, and mutual respect for people's differences. In this episode Meg and Amy discuss: "Disability" versus "difference," and how people choose the words that feel right for them How Meg's experience growing up different made her parenting kids with differences a little easier—though maybe not as much as someone outside that experience might expect the well-meaning "thrusting of help" that we might reconsider Here's where you can find Meg: @MegZucker @Justflauntit_ Buy Meg's book: ⁠https://bookshop.org/a/12099/9780593419380⁠ What Fresh Hell is co-hosted by Amy Wilson and Margaret Ables. We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: ⁠https://www.whatfreshhellpodcast.com/p/promo-codes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:28.6	hey everybody welcome to fresh take from what fresh hell laughing in the face of motherhood
0:36.3	this is amy And today, I'm
0:38.0	talking to Meg Zucker. She is the founder and president of Don't Hide It, flaunted, a nonprofit
0:43.5	with the mission of advancing understanding, tolerance, and mutual respect for people's differences.
0:49.4	Don't Hide It flaunt to provide social emotional learning and anti-bullying programming to schools, universities,
0:56.0	community service organizations, and Fortune 500 companies.
0:59.7	Meg is also the mother of three kids and the author of the new book, Born Extraordinary,
1:04.4	Empowering Children with Differences and Disabilities.
1:07.7	Welcome, Meg.
1:08.5	Thank you, Amy.
1:09.3	I'm so happy to be here.
1:11.9	So before we get to the book,
1:15.8	I'd like for you to tell the listeners a little bit about the genetic condition that you were born with.
1:22.9	Sure, absolutely. So I was born with a condition called extradactylie, leaving me with one finger on each hand, shortened forearms, and one toe on each foot. And when I say one toe on each foot,
1:28.2	everyone imagines their own foot and then just one little toe on there. And by all means,
1:32.7	my feet don't look like yours. So they're pretty small and round and sort of have a toe,
1:37.3	but whatever. But extradactually is interesting because it doesn't mean that if someone has it,
1:43.1	they have the same physical version
1:45.2	of what I ended up being born with. So it really just means missing digits. And so I ended up,
1:53.3	and we can talk about this obviously, the fact that I gave birth to two of my three children
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