Videos

Sometimes you need to hear the person behind the words.

These hold the parts of this mission that are easiest to understand when I can say them out loud — the hard days, the faith, the humor, and the possibility I still believe in.

They are grouped by what you might be looking for, not by when I made them. Most are under a minute. Start anywhere.

Being heard

How do you know a doctor is a good doctor?

Knowledge matters. So do compassion, communication, humility, and the willingness to see the patient as a person instead of only a disease or an interesting case.

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A good doctor understands the medicine and has the compassion to consider what the patient and family are experiencing. I value doctors who communicate, ask questions, and reach out to colleagues when they do not know an answer.

You know a doctor cares when they show up and treat the person—not only the diagnosis.

Being given a chance

What does a job mean to you?

Before I found work, I felt defined by my disabilities and illnesses. A job gave me purpose, friendships, and the chance to help other people discover their own strengths.

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I wanted a job because I did not feel that I had a purpose or knew what I could accomplish. Work became a way to focus on something beyond pain and illness.

It means a great deal to help people with disabilities find their strengths, reveal their skills, and be part of a place where everyone can be themselves without being defined by their struggles. We became a family.

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Invisible But Real: My Story in My Own Words

In a little over four minutes, I share the year I spent in hospitals, the walkathon and community miles that grew from it, the work and writing that gave me purpose, and how AI helps me communicate when my body makes traditional filming difficult.

A real story, told transparently.

I wrote this in my own words. The presenter you see is my HeyGen digital avatar. The photographs, contributed-mile records, and experiences in the film are real.

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If you only watch one short

Invisible But Real: My Journey

The short version of my whole life — autism, two strokes, years of hospitals — and why I decided to stop letting that be the only thing about me.

This is the shortest honest version of my whole life. If you are deciding whether any of this is for you, it is a fair place to find out.

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What are you looking for today?

26 videos, sorted by the reason someone might need them. There is no order you are supposed to go in.

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“I want to know who you are.”

If you have never been here before, these are the ones to watch first. They are the whole shape of the story in a few minutes.

ShortInvisible But Real: My JourneyThe short version of my whole life — autism, two strokes, years of hospitals — and why I decided to stop letting that be the only thing about me.

ShortYour Story Isn't Finished — and Mine Isn't EitherDoctors told my parents I probably would not live past four, and that if I did I would never walk or talk. I am still here. The people who measured your limits never had the whole picture.

ShortWhy I Share My PainThis is not a request for pity. I share it because somewhere there is one person who needs to know that what they are living through has been survived before.

When nobody believes you

“People look at me and assume things that are not true.”

Invisible disability, labels, accommodation, doctors, and work. These are for the days when the hardest part is not your body — it is being doubted.

ShortWhat Are Invisible Disabilities?A plain explanation of what an invisible disability is, for anyone who has been told they do not look sick — or who loves somebody who has.

ShortWhy Labels Can Sabotage More Than Disabilities ThemselvesDisability is not the same as inability. The label often does more damage than the condition, because it decides what people expect from you before you speak.

ShortAccommodation Is NOT Special TreatmentAccommodation does not lower the bar. It gives capability room to show up. My first job is the reason I know the difference.

ShortFinding a Job With DisabilitiesRejection, whether to disclose, and the long stretch of being called unreliable — and then the one workplace where I could finally contribute as myself.

ShortWhat Makes a Great DoctorI have had more doctors than I can count. You can tell within thirty seconds which kind just walked in. This is what the good ones do differently.

ShortAutism and StereotypesWhat people think autism looks like, what it actually looks like from the inside, and why the gap between those two costs autistic adults so much.

ShortCoping With Feeling Defined by IllnessWhen your condition starts to feel like your whole identity. How I learned to separate who I am from what I live with.

Living in it

“The days are long and the pain does not stop.”

Pain, hospitals, exhaustion, and the slow work of finding joy anyway. No pretending it is easy. No pretending it is the end.

ShortWhat I've Learned From Living in HospitalsMore than seven years of my life has been spent inside them. This is what that teaches you about time, dignity, and who shows up.

ShortWhy Pain Charts Are Making Your Pain WorseRating your pain one to ten, several times a day, trains your brain to keep checking. What I learned at Mayo about what that repetition actually builds.

ShortStop Training Your Brain to HurtNeuroplasticity in plain language: your brain gets good at whatever you practice. For years I was practising pain without knowing it.

ShortDistraction Is the Best MedicineMaking pizzas at Brewability did more for my pain than most of what I was prescribed. Not because the pain was fake — because attention is a real lever.

ShortFinding Joy With Invisible DisabilitiesJoy is not the reward for getting better. It is something you can build in the middle of it, on the ordinary days, without waiting for permission.

AI as accommodation

“I need help doing things my body will not let me do.”

What these tools actually let a person do — plan a day around real energy, build something, get an idea out. Honest about the limits.

ShortHow AI Is Empowering People With DisabilitiesCommunication, creativity, independence, confidence. The doors that used to be closed to me, and which ones these tools actually opened.

ShortAI Helped Me Build an Accessibility PlannerThe story behind FlareFlow — a planner that starts with the energy you actually have today instead of assuming every day is the same.

ShortThe Adaptive Day PlannerWhat planning a day looks like when pain, fatigue, and brain fog change the rules hour by hour — and how I built something around that instead of against it.

VideoPowerful AI Is Becoming More AccessiblePlain-language look at why these tools getting cheaper matters more for disabled adults than it does for anyone else.

ShortAI Is Evolving Beyond Just ChatbotsWhere this is going: tools that can see, remember, and act. What that could mean for independence.

ShortBuilding an App Locally With OllamaRunning a capable model on your own machine, with no subscription. This matters if a monthly fee is not something you can carry.

VideoI Am Language, DreamingA short cinematic film I made. Proof, mostly to myself, that the ideas in my head could become something other people can watch.

VideoThe Sora Ad I Made for My JobA commercial for Brewability, made in an afternoon from a tiny house. Work that would normally need a crew, a budget, and a body that cooperates.

Faith in hard places

“I am trying to hold on to something.”

Where my faith actually meets my health, including the parts that are still unresolved. Here if you want it, easy to skip if you don't.

ShortFinding Peace in the StormNot a story about miraculous healing. A story about peace showing up in the middle of the ICU, with nothing about the diagnosis changed.

ShortGod Doesn't Waste Your PainFor anyone who has been through something that tried to define them. Written with the people I work beside at Brewability in mind.

ShortThe Lie the Devil Tells to Keep Us ComfortableOn staying small because it feels safer, and what it costs to believe that the quiet life is the same thing as a faithful one.

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The songs have their own page.

Original music written for awareness days and for people I know — including one for World Down Syndrome Day, with the lyrics.

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SeriesFest · Brewability

What changed wasn't my ability. It was the opportunity.

Before Brewability, other employers saw my hospital stays and decided I was unreliable. Brewability saw someone worth giving a chance. At SeriesFest, I shared what that chance gave me: skills, a second family, and a purpose.

“Brewability is not a job. It's my second family and my purpose.”

Sometimes society creates the barrier—not because adults with disabilities have nothing to contribute, but because we are not given the experience or the room to show what we can do.

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Avery speaking at SeriesFest in 2024, where the Brewability pilot was presented.

Read Avery's SeriesFest speechTranscript lightly edited for readability

I just wanted to say that Brewability's concept, along with the exposure of a docuseries, would have such a positive impact. It has the potential to change the world. I know for a fact it has changed a lot of people's worlds. It certainly changed mine.

Before I started working here, I was unable to get a job anywhere else because I am in the hospital and sick too often. I felt defined by my illnesses and disabilities, like I had no value, skill sets, or really anything positive to contribute to this world. But through Brewability, I discovered I do—and I am not defined by my disabilities.

Through working here, I have the amazing opportunity to help others discover this for themselves. This concept is really redefining the word disability, especially the thought of disabled people in the workplace. Working here has taught me that I can embrace my struggles and turn them into superpowers, rather than hide from them and only think negatively about them.

Brewability is a place where people who feel unaccepted and rejected in everyday society can unite, be themselves, have fun, and experience an overwhelming, joyous sensation of welcomeness, acceptance, understanding, and love as soon as they step foot in the door.

Brewability is not a job. It is my second family and my purpose, and it has changed me more than you can imagine. It is a place where I and many others feel comfortable being ourselves, because we all share similar struggles and know what it is like not to be understood. We have the incredible opportunity to change that.

Disability is just a word. It only becomes a reality when we as a society decide to put the “dis” in front of ability, and in doing that, inability is implied. That is far from true. It is only perceived that way because of a lack of knowledge about us and misinformation that leads people to believe we are unable.

Because of this misconception, there is a major lack of opportunities for us, and therefore we are deprived of experience—experience we could use to excel ourselves like others. Brewability is aiming to change that with its life-changing concept. Together, we will redefine the word disability and provide the information people need to look at us as normal people with a few extra obstacles in our way.

A part of the story people do not seeThe smile is real. So is everything it takes to get there.At work, people saw me smiling, spinning pizza dough, and telling customers their food was made with love. They could not always see what it took just to reach the counter.

People did not see the sleep, medicine, injections, IV nutrition, nausea, pain, and recovery that could be part of getting through the door. The joy was not a mask. I truly loved being there. And the hard parts were not any less real.

I am not sharing that for sympathy. I am sharing it because invisible does not mean easy—and needing support does not make my contribution any less meaningful.

“He is determined. Determined to make someone else smile.”

My mom shared this video on Life with Bravery in 2019, from the part of my story she has walked beside me.

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Thirteen seconds at Pizzability: joy, skill, and a much bigger story beyond the frame.

Made with Sora · Rooted in real life

AI helped me picture what belonging feels like.

I made this advertisement with Sora for the place that gave me my first real chance. Brewability did more than hire me—it gave my abilities somewhere to be seen, my hard days somewhere to be understood, and me a place to belong.

This is what I believe AI can do at its best: help people like me turn lived experience into something others can finally see and feel.

The images are AI-made. The belonging behind them is real.

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Brewability is not just a job; it is a family. We all have our own challenges, but we show up with a smile on our face. Society wants us to believe disabled means unable. It just requires more understanding. Brewability has changed my life.

Every pint powers inclusion, led by talented adults with disabilities, built so everyone belongs. So, what are you waiting for? Grab a cold brew and a pizza made just for you.

Need a breather? This is your space to decompress, designed with and for our disabled and neurodiverse guests. Play a focus game, or use our free headphones to turn down the noise. A brewery with a purpose. A mission with a dream. Inclusivity in action.

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“Brewed to Belong”—created by Avery with Sora, bringing AI-generated scenes together with Brewability imagery.

What I wish every doctor understood

A short reflection on compassion, listening, and treating a person — not only a diagnosis.

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Why I make these

“I share the truth about living with invisible disabilities so someone out there might feel a little less alone.”

AI helps me create and publish these videos, but the life behind them is mine. The technology is a tool. The empathy, emotion, faith, and purpose come from a story I have actually lived.