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About me

I’m Brian Amaro-Jeppesen — writer, AI practitioner, and founder of Happy Makes Happy, a mission-driven publisher of practical guides that help people thrive. I have AuDHD, OCD, and anxiety, and I spent years asking “What is wrong with me?” before trading it for a better question: What does my brain need to thrive — and how can these new tools help me build it? Everything I write here was lived first: tested in my own days, refined through my own setbacks, and kept only when it actually worked. I hold an MFA in Creative Writing from UC Riverside and write at the intersection of technology, accessibility, and the differently wired mind. I live in Bakersfield, California, with my wife and daughter — the brains I’m happiest to share the journey with.

About the book

My forthcoming book, AI For Neurodiversity: Your Guide to AI Strategies That Help Your Neurodiversity Shine, starts from a simple premise: neurodivergent brains are not broken. The struggle so many of us carry isn’t personal failure — it’s friction between a cognitive style and a world built around different assumptions. When a wheelchair user can’t enter a building, we don’t blame the wheelchair; we build a ramp. This book shows how modern AI — the kind you can talk to in plain language — can be one of those ramps: not a cure, but a patient, nonjudgmental tool that holds steps outside your head, translates vague expectations into concrete actions, and drafts the email you’ve avoided for three days. If you can send a text message, you can do everything in it.