@TisDeanoPVFC @colinrtalbot Absolutely. And people with complex physical needs who require adult sized changing benches have had nothing at all until very recently.
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Christine Waterman
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Christine Waterman
@Chrissibuzz7
former home educator, now early years SEND teacher, interested in sensory story telling, early communication, and learning through play.
Katılım Nisan 2016
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@colinrtalbot Many small venues don’t have disabled toilets , I missed the faux outrage over this in my past 32 years as a wheelchair user , it seems a certain group not peeing is ok though 👍
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REMINDER: planes, trains and coaches already have uni-sex loos. Disabled toilets are uni-sex. Lots of small venues have them too.
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@preta_6 The baby isn’t asking for its mother, but it is interacting and it doesn’t get the expected happy response. The response is no. No way Jose. The father does not respond to the sadness which is a bit of a concern in terms of how responsive to the child’s needs he can be in future
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@preta_6 Babies first make open mouthed ‘ahhh’ type sounds, then simple sounds like muh and duh. They babble, making the sounds randomly, without meaning. This baby has mastered 2 syllable sounds and that step of knowing how to make that same sound again. Look at the concentration!
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This is the correct take. I’ve been annoyed by those saying the baby is asking for his mother. Babies start making the “muh” sound around this age. It’s ludicrous to suggest the baby is specifically trying to ask for its mother.
But Esme is totally correct that this baby appears distressed, and that this behaviour doesn’t appear normal. It’s a heartbreaking video for any mother to see.
Esme Vee 〰️ (big dragon energy)@esme_saysno
Any mother knows that well-adjusted babies smile and giggle during this sort of play. This poor child exhibits extreme discomfort and frustration and it doesn't even register to the man
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@Psychgirl211 The ‘daddy or pop’ shows no concern for the babies tears, but stays stuck on his own thoughts about two dads. He does not seem as concerned for the babies feelings as we would hope.
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@Psychgirl211 I agree. I don’t think the baby is asking for mama. Instead they are managing to make a word like sound and repeat it. A significant step in speech acquisition. In a regular family this would be met with delight. The response the baby gets confuses and upsets them.
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This 'shadow child' (my term for babies born by surrogacy), is probably just making the 'm' sound, because it's one of the first phonemes/morphemes a baby makes (which is why the word 'mother' starts with 'm' in pretty much every human language).
However, as I write here, the wider point still stands.
The baby is obviously distressed and his 'father' seems oblivious.
He's actually laughing at the baby's dysregulation.
This 'shadow child's' psyche is possibly already fractured beyond repair.
And, sadly, this is just the beginning.
Things are going to get a lot worse for him.
Right Angle News Network@Rightanglenews
Two gay men in Nashville are sparking nationwide outrage after recording a video of themselves mocking the baby they had via surrogacy as it cries for its mother for content. Man: “Who do you want, Dada or Pop?” Baby: “Mama” Man: “No, there is no mama.” Baby: cries
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@elbarto65160277 @koke007419349 @nocontextmemes Multiplication by zero is would equate to having zero bags of one apple - so zero.
If you have one apple, then you have the equivalent of one bag of one apple.
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@koke007419349 @nocontextmemes i dont get the multiplication with 0
lets say u have 1 apple and u multiply that 1 apple with 0, u suddenly have 0 apples left
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@MarkNeary1 What an astonishingly irrational comparison from someone supposedly a doctor!
Wrong on so many levels!
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This charlatan makes me heave. How dare she compare someone facing stage 4 cancer with someone about to begin puberty. It's offensive & disrespectful of both groups.
Dr Helen Webberley (she/her)@HelenWebberley
This is honestly like saying ‘let’s wait until the cancer reaches stage 4 before starting chemotherapy’. Who’s advising here? Puberty needs to be blocked at the start!!
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@ArmatradingJoan Superb movie. Funny and moving, and I think it is really helping people understand about Tourette’s. Fully deserved the Best Actor award.
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I watched I swear today. What a great film. Take a look at it and let me know if you think the same. You can see it on Amazon
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@mikawilson777 @mattgriffinreal @PopBase I have experience of people with the same condition, and have watched the documentaries about John and see that the things they say when ticking do not match their behaviour. It is well documented that tics are influenced by the situation, and do not reflect thoughts.
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@Chrissibuzz7 @mattgriffinreal @PopBase You are not in his mind, so you can’t say that the things he utters don’t reflect his heart. If the slurs are person-specific (as in my examples), it suggests that the slurs are part of his nature.
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John Davidson reportedly also shouted out the N-word at Wunmi Mosaku when she won Best Supporting Actress for ‘Sinners’ at the BAFTAs.
BBC’s Director General says this instance did get edited out of the broadcast, unlike the other one, because there was “confusion between the first time it was yelled and the second.”
“Our understanding at this point is that the team editing the show in the truck mistakenly believed they had edited out the incident that was being referenced, on the basis that they had heard and edited out the slur shouted out during the Best Supporting Actress award. Therefore, when they were told a racial slur had been shouted, they believed they had removed it.” (via Deadline)
(deadline.com/2026/03/bbc-se…)
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@Supadupaflyz @PopBase You could try watching the film, I Swear, or his book of the same name, or the several documentaries and see just how much harm has been done to him by his condition and the lack of understanding of it.
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@Sofiasandia2 @PopBase Imagine your whole adult life avoiding public places like pubs, cinema, coffee shops, even buses because you can’t control what your tics do, getting beaten up, and then people make a film about you and your condition which wins awards. You are invited, hoping for understanding.
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@PopBase omg imagine living such an important moment in your life and your career and hearing someone yell a racial slur at you. If I was him I wouldn't go to this awards tbh.
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@terraformastdio @mattgriffinreal @PopBase Some treatments exist that help some sufferers. I know several people with it who have found no useful treatment despite searching hard.
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@mattgriffinreal @PopBase Tourette’s is treatable, and he was using the affliction as a handy excuse.
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@mikawilson777 @mattgriffinreal @PopBase That’s a misunderstanding of how the condition works. The brain reacts to the situation and says the worst thing. It does not reflect what he thinks. Just what he has heard. Hence he shouted ‘I’ve got a bomb’ going through customs.
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@mattgriffinreal @PopBase He said “F the queen” to the queen. Not a general slur, a specific one that ONLY applies to her. He called a gay man a gay slur, not the “n-word”. Specific. Targeted? It seems like he’s thinking these things, and the disability makes him blurt them.🤷♂️
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@alicesalisburyj This is a really clear example of how lumping different conditions together under one label is far from helpful, especially where people reach automatically for of the leg strategies such as headphones instead of looking at the child’s needs in detail. Your son deserves better.
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Given the article is about the ‘feminisation’ of autism, it’s a little odd to offer my 16yo son’s autism diagnosis as a case example for how broadening a category can cause as many problems as it solves, but ho hum
My son was diagnosed at 14 and it’s been supremely unhelpful /1
Kathleen Stock@Docstockk
Batten down the hatches! I wrote for @unherd about the great feminisation of autism and how Ute Frith is right - the category no longer makes sense. unherd.com/2026/03/the-fe…
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@Bonniepurple @jon_severs @Helen_Amass We do say that about CP, different levels and different types, affecting different limbs, and some are minimal enough to not interfere with most skill acquisition and others who cannot sit, grasp and release, control limbs, etc will qualify for very different levels of support.
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@jon_severs @Helen_Amass I would not qualify under her proposed terms. I would be left, not fitting in, struggling, going for unsuitable jobs, having breakdowns-bc my differences don’t count. I find it offensive tbh. Would she say that there’s diff levels of cerebral palsy & only the most severe count?
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"I’ve been quite swept up by the autism spectrum idea, and it’s only in the past 10 years or so that I have felt things have gone too far, and very slowly I have come to say, 'No, this is not right'"
Autism expert professor Uta Frith talks to @Helen_Amass
tes.com/magazine/teach…
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@lp9592 @TomChivers I’ve encountered a number of people with brain injury labelled autistic when all of their differences and difficulties are explained by their brain injury. Not sure how it helps them.
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@TomChivers My sister profoundly brain damaged due to lack of oxygen at or before birth; now labelled ‘autistic’, no idea why.
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reading this Uta Frith interview in TES. It's so important on the expansion of autism diagnoses to include almost anyone, many of whom would be better described as having social anxiety. This bit in particular on masking seems really insightful tes.com/magazine/teach…
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@SimonMcGlynn4 @Alanheyalan @etnow Apparently it wasn’t an active mic, but was there to monitor sound levels.
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@Alanheyalan @etnow Nah, I think that's a stretch. The are precautions you can take that don't involve exclusion
For instance, they'd a mic on his table which was on for some reason. That was just a bad idea
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‘Sinners’ star Wunmi Mosaku weighs in on what happened to her co-stars, Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo, at the BAFTAs last weekend.
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@Dr_JSA @Cordeli43872191 I do understand that, and that it was shocking, disturbing and painful for them, but it doesn’t make it ok to be deliberately mocking John for a condition that has isolated him so much from life, and caused him to suffer severe beating, and fearing a repeat.
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@Cordeli43872191 Oh I agree it's a choice.
But perhaps someone whose relative was lynched and murdered in living memory might have a bit more of a struggle in making that choice.
I seem to be in a minority of Brits who, at the very least, acknowledges that.
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This won't be the end of it.
One thing that I've found fascinating is how white Britons don't truly understand how wounding the n-word is to African Americans, because of their history of racism and slavery.
The lack of empathy from Americans is not a surprise to me.
Hadley Freeman@HadleyFreeman
On the one hand, two wealthy, successful men living their lifelong dreams get called a horrible name at the Baftas On the other, a man with a lifelong, life-crippling neurological condition now held up for global mockery. Hard not to see this as the endpoint of identity politics
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Christine Waterman retweetledi
My son has severe Tourette’s and I’m incredibly proud that we were part of I Swear. We were invited by Tourette Scotland to be extras in the community scenes and every child you see in those scenes lives with Tourette’s. Our families have all stayed connected since.
I truly hope more people watch it. It is the most raw and honest portrayal of what life with this condition is really like. And it helps that it’s an absolutely brilliant film in its own right too.
James Melville 🚜@JamesMelville
I watched ‘I Swear’ the film about John Davidson’s life with Tourette Syndrome. It’s a brilliant film. Perhaps the film luvvies who showed their true colours and sanctimonious hypocrisy and disgraceful treatment of John Davidson at the BAFTAs should actually watch it to really understand what real tolerance and acceptance actually is.
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@NJBeisner @Hunteryounggg @RealKyleOhio I have seen people who originally posted in anger at John, change their minds and apologise, so maybe there will be some good from this. There will certainly be good coming from the film. Some people will stay hardened in their views. I hope you find a way to have a good life.
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@Hunteryounggg @RealKyleOhio I’m so sorry. That’s awful. I’m hoping this controversy raising a little more awareness and understanding in the general public.
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“The woman who was taking care of [John Davidson] in the movie was dying of cancer, and he kept on saying, ‘you’re gonna die of cancer!’ He said, ‘fuck the queen.’ He was having his car searched, and he said, ‘I’ve got a bomb in there.’ He’s been arrested. He’s been beaten.”
I cannot imagine what it’s like living with profound Tourette Syndrome. I am praying for more compassion for Davidson and for everyone else afflicted. Looking forward to watching I Swear.
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