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Most people don’t fake being sick. They fake being well. Read that again. XO, Dr. Jen

New Ofsted guidance labels autistic children as more likely be extremists – it's grotesque . Please join us at Parliament Square on Friday, 22 May to demand Ofsted treat autistic children and their families with the dignity they deserve . @Ofstednews – remove the lie !

Repost if you think the BBC openly promotes and protects Farage and Reform UK!

Depression can look like: Counting down the hours until you can go back to bed. Cancelling appointments because you can’t face outside. Eating too much or not at all. Staring at the wall longer than you’d admit. Wanting help but not knowing how to ask. Repost if you understand to show others (ME) we aren’t alone.

NOBODY TELLS NEURODIVERGENTS THAT MASKING AT WORK COSTS MORE THAN THE JOB PAYS.

The narcissist picked you because you were extremely attractive to them. You had something they desperately wanted. You had light. And you were safe. That’s what people don’t understand. Narcissists do not attach themselves to people they see as weak, empty, or worthless. They gravitate toward people who are kind, patient, empathetic, loving, ambitious, loyal, forgiving, emotionally intelligent, and full of life.

Today from the telegraph, we have pretty much had the headline: profoundly disabled people cost too much, says man who allegedly owes £500 million in tax. Although it wasn't worth it exactly like that and he was referred to simply as Lord Bamford: as if the public should respect him. It's quite sickening really. I did have fun rationing the telegraph absolute fuck about it though. Good night, lovely people x

WARNING: This may be the least flattering photo of Trump ever taken. Fuckface would absolutely HATE seeing this spread across timelines. So whatever you do… DO NOT RETWEET! Don’t share it. Let’s all be mature adults and make sure that doesn’t happen.

When I was a nine-year-old schoolgirl, my teacher asked us to write a news article. She told me, 'All I want to know is Who, What, Where, When, and Why.' It took me two attempts, but I finally produced a piece that she said satisfied exactly what a reader needs to know. So, let us play teacher with Chris Mason today. Let us look at how he manipulates and manufactures drama for the BBC, a service we pay for. Who: He cites 'friends and allies' of Wes Streeting, using anonymous whispers instead of a single official statement from a man who has neither resigned nor told the media he is standing. What: He describes 'jostling on the start line' of a race that does not officially exist, masquerading speculation as a foregone conclusion. Where: He sets the scene in a fictionalised 'expected race for leader', ignoring the reality that governance happens in departments, not in a journalist’s imagination. When: He claims a challenge is 'imminent' to create a false sense of urgency, despite no confirmation of any such move. Why: He does it to feed the 'anger factory' and secure clicks, knowingly trading national stability for media ratings. Journalism is supposed to inform citizens, not project chaos. @ChrisMasonBBC has failed my teacher’s test. He is not reporting the news, he is attempting to invent it. Do we pay the BBC so that journalists can play soap opera directors with our future? #BBC #ChrisMason #Journalism #UKPolitics #Starmer #WesStreeting #Truth #Accountability

@KelsD83 Happy belated birthday!

I have balloons 🎈 Chapter 43 ☺️

I waited 14yrs for a Labour government & these backbenchers have decided to throw it back in my face by calling on the only Labour leader to win an election since 2005 to resign. I’m disgusted with each and every single one of them including my own MP, @Tom4EWAS

Habib dropped an allegation that Farage & Johnson were each handed £1m by Christopher Harborne to fix an election. @bbclaurak @BethRigby @Peston @krishgm @Steven_Swinford @christopherhope @hzeffman @alexwickham @tomhfh @nickeardleybbc @PippaCrerar @MichaelLCrick @benrileysmith

I’m hearing that Andy Burnham has purchased a meal deal at WH Smith in Euston station. Beth, Sam and Sophy are en route to ask the checkout assistant what flavour crisps he chose. Meanwhile Nigel Farage trousered a £5m bung and didn’t declare it. Back to the crisps story.

I’m not anti-AI. I like MRI machines. I like collision avoidance systems in airplanes. I like software that can detect cancer before a doctor can. I like machine vision systems that stop factory workers from getting their hands crushed in hydraulic presses. That’s what computers are supposed to do. Cold. Precise. Mechanical. I don’t need a technology to “express itself.” The problem started when Silicon Valley decided the machine should paint. The machine should write poetry. The machine should compose symphonies and generate films and imitate the human soul like a skinwalker wearing a beret. Now every ad, every song, every image online has this faint chemical aftertaste to it. Like the entire culture is being slowly replaced with synthetic substitutes because executives realized audiences consume slop at the same rate they consume art. And the worst part is they call this “democratizing creativity.” No. Creativity was already democratized. A guy with a guitar and 3 friends in a garage could make something beautiful. A college kid with a cracked copy of Photoshop could make an album cover that changed someone’s life. What they actually democratized was content production. Factories. Throughput. Infinite generation. A machine can diagnose my low testosterone. Fine. I just don’t want it writing the eulogy.

There’s someone right now who’s trying to find a reason to stay alive. They feel alone, like a burden, & unnecessary. They feel unloved, unheard, & unseen. Their minds are torturing them & trying to push them over the edge. You might know this person. You might be this person.

'Nobody wants to work anymore.' Real wages haven't risen since 2008. The 40% tax band kicks in at £50,270 and hasn't moved since 2021. Earn between £100K and £125K and you keep 38p of every extra pound. Every promotion drags more of your salary into a higher tax band, where the government takes more than the rise was worth. Final salary pensions got replaced with auto-enrol pots you fund yourself. Pension age keeps moving. Annual leave entitlements haven't budged in over a decade. Sick pay is £123 a week. Council tax went up 5% this year while the bin men come once a fortnight. Childcare costs more than most second salaries. House prices are ten times average earnings. Loyalty got downsized the second the share price wobbled. Working from home got rescinded the second managers wanted their car parks full again. And the people who did all that are confused about the attitude problem.

Me: I'm autistic and this is challenging for me NTs: have you tried not being autistic?

Could anyone sum up where the UK is currently at any better? This is pure gold.