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Maxine Roper @maxinefrances.bsky.social · 15h

Food: Meat.
Movie: If I’ve bothered to sit down and watch a film, it’s unlikely to be bad.
Song: Dancing In The Moonlight - Toploader.

Ed Zeppelin 🏴‍☠️male buttcheek connoisseur🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏴‍☠️ @ourartmeanszepp.bsky.social · 19h

Introduce yourself with one food you refuse to eat, a movie you’ll never won’t watch again, and a song you can’t stand

Food: Tuna
Movie: Dan in Real Life
Song: Cheerleader

crocs and socks @caribbeancrocs.bsky.social · 22h

Food I won't eat: crust on a sandwich
Movie I won't watch again: Atonement
Song I hate: Hotel California!!!

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The Daily Distraction @thedailydistract.bsky.social · 2d

Woman’s ‘rare personality type’ actually just ADHD and autism… thedailydistract.com/womans-rare-...

Woman's 'rare personality type' actually just ADHD and autism - The Daily Distraction

A woman identified as a 'rare' personality type by psychometric testing at work is actually just a woman who meets the diagnostic criteria for ADHD, dyspraxia and autism, it has been revealed...

thedailydistract.com

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Maxine Roper @maxinefrances.bsky.social · 3d

“Great piece by a financial services firm” isn’t something I say very often, but this is a useful one on ‘the ADHD tax’. Unlike many, it mentions income inequality and the education gap… retirement.fidelity.co.uk/news-insight... #ADHDAwarenessMonth

The ADHD tax: paying the price of neurodiversity

In this article, Fidelity’s Eleanor de Bruin shares insight into the ADHD tax, how it affects one’s life and how it could potentially be managed.

retirement.fidelity.co.uk

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Maxine Roper @maxinefrances.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve never got the hang of posting on Reddit, but I’ve been told my book has been recommended in a dyspraxia community thread there for awareness week. If you’re there, please say I said hi! www.reddit.com/r/dyspraxia/...

From the dyspraxia community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the dyspraxia community

www.reddit.com

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 4d

I write full time largely because of one thread about getting high with the Irish president. As cringe as it is to admit, my entire life has been massively enhanced by Twitter and ketamine over precisely the same time that those two things have proven less beneficial for Elon Musk.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 5d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Maxine Roper @maxinefrances.bsky.social · 5d

*nods profusely*

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Dr Dean Burnett @garwboy.bsky.social · 5d

Earl of Sandwich: "I put something in my mouth one time and now that's all I'm known for!"

Duke of Fellatio: "OH MY HEART BLEEDS!"

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Maxine Roper @maxinefrances.bsky.social · 5d

This is such a nice idea!

Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 5d

Hello! For ADHD Awareness Month, the bionic text eBook of 'It's Not a Bloody Trend' is down to £2.99.

If you find you have trouble with your eyes sliding off words, bionic text is a wonderful innovation that makes it much, much easier to read a book: www.amazon.co.uk/Its-Not-Bloo...

The beautiful blue and gold cover for my book It's Not A Bloody Trend: Understanding Life as an ADHD Adult. At the top, there's a quote from Bryony Gordon: "An incisive, brilliantly written and - above all - deeply comforting book."

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 5d

Ways to resist fascism

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 5d

Crime drama fans have been left bewildered by Channel 4’s latest offering, which features a sleuth protagonist so neurotypical that he is completely unrecognisable as a detective, critics have claimed.

Audiences baffled as TV detective not even a little bit autistic

Crime drama fans have been left bewildered by Channel 4’s latest offering, which features a sleuth protagonist so neurotypical that he is completely unrecognisable as a detective, critics have…

thedailytism.com

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Maxine Roper @maxinefrances.bsky.social · 6d

Taggie recording herself reading directions and playing the tapes on the car radio when she’s driving - just brilliant! Satnav for the 80s (and I wish I’d thought of that in my pre-smartphone youth…)

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Maxine Roper @maxinefrances.bsky.social · 6d

Seeing as it’s Dyspraxia and Dyslexia Awareness Week/Month and Jilly Cooper just died, it’s worth saying that the TV adaptation of Rivals has one of the best subtle, retro depictions of a dyspraxic-dyslexic person I’ve ever seen…

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 6d

You just have to find somebody whose infodump schedule vibes with your hyperfixation calendar

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 7d

Knickers at half mast today everyone, for Jilly Cooper x

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The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · 6d

Learning to drive as a neurodivergent person…

Practical and emotional tips for getting behind the wheel, from @maxinefrances.bsky.social, author of ‘No Heels, No Problem: A Neurodivergent Survival Guide to Adult Life when you are Dyspraxic or ADHD’.

www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Learning to drive as a neurodivergent person | BPS

Practical and emotional tips for getting behind the wheel, from Maxine Roper, author of ‘No Heels, No Problem: A Neurodivergent Survival Guide to Adult Life when you are Dyspraxic or ADHD’.

www.bps.org.uk

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Maxine Roper @maxinefrances.bsky.social · 7d

Coming up to 15 years ago now but y’know. Sorry to you too x

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Maxine Roper @maxinefrances.bsky.social · 7d

The things you do when you’re young and one of your best mates has just died horribly and you need money quickly. Or something…

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Maxine Roper @maxinefrances.bsky.social · 7d

Omg! I once wrote an Olly Murs fan annual! 😂

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Maxine Roper @maxinefrances.bsky.social · 7d

I haven’t seen The Matrix, Star Wars, any James Bond film, any Indiana Jones film, I’ll stop now…

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 8d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Maxine Roper @maxinefrances.bsky.social · 8d

I was wondering the exact same!

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Maxine Roper @maxinefrances.bsky.social · 8d

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 9d

List of discontinued merit badges (Boy Scouts of America)

"discontinued merit badges (boy scouts of America)" wikipedia page shows "nut culture", 1928-1954

stalker merit badge 1910-1922, stalking merit badge 1911-1952

invention merit badge 1911-1917. only 10 scouts achieved it, required that they obtained a federal patent

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The Daily Distraction @thedailydistract.bsky.social · 10d

ADHDer remembers awareness month in time for start... thedailydistract.com/adhder-remem...

ADHDer remembers awareness month in time for start - The Daily Distraction

In a sensational move, an ADHD has remembered to do something for ADHD Awareness Month in time for the beginning of the month...

thedailydistract.com

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 10d

Hate seeks to divide us. But hope endures when we stand together. Our solidarity is with the Jewish community today. #britainstandstogether

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Maxine Roper @maxinefrances.bsky.social · 10d

ADHD Awareness Month mood is wondering whether I should be signed up to more events or whether I should just hang tight and wait for them all the invites to come on October 25th…