Leanne Whitehouse is on a mission and she's making up for lost time.
From the kitchen table at her home in Tweed Heads, New South Wales, she is cooking up a plan to bring two worlds together: the public and the brain injured, after she waited 25 years for her own diagnosis.
"For a person on the street, they can look at you and go: 'Oh, you're not disabled, there's nothing wrong with you, you're high functioning,' Leanne said.