Danielle Meinert struggles to eat anything other than cheese pizza, Easy Mac and toast with butter, and Ellis Ballard has life-threatening food allergies, which makes eating, drinking and living life challenging.

Asthma had always held Tara Turner back, but when the doctor tells her she’s officially “obese,” she decides to make a change, and Paul Aflalo struggles with the decision to get gastric bypass surgery.

As a deaf person, Alma Schrage doesn’t see a place for herself in the traditional academic world of science, and after a fall leaves Jennifer Piatek paralyzed, she must rethink how she defines herself as a scientist.

Pamela Toh is dead set on being the “bad kid” at school, and on a family vacation to Disney, Matthew Dicks becomes more and more frustrated by his daughter’s strange behavior.

When Christine Gentry moves across the country to California, she struggles to find community, and after moving to Beirut, Lebanon from the U.S., Mary Ann Perkins doesn’t understand why everyone keeps staring at her.

As the team principal of the autonomous racing team, Madhur Behl is determined to win, and Engineer Mate King searches for a plane that crashed in the remote mountains of Idaho.

After fully embracing their asexuality, Katherine Holmes begins questioning the necessity of a romantic relationship, and Julie Tomé is thrown for a loop when her child announces they’re “not a girl”.

Growing up in sexually conservative Ireland, Connor O’Donoghue is completely in the dark about sex, sexuality, and anatomy, and Justina Assaad thinks the nausea she’s feeling while waiting to go parasailing is just a fluke.

As someone who values language, Jerzy Gwiazdowski is thrown into turmoil when his partner says “suposably,” and no one can ever say Casie Caldwell’s name correctly and it makes her furious.

As a student, Emily Pitts was never a fan of science, but now, as a middle school teacher, she’s not feeling confident in her skills to teach the subject, and despite his deep desire to study science, Andrew Barnes is constantly told he can’t.