Georgia Harper
@mindtheflap.bsky.social
A strange blend of autism policy analysis and silly Doctor Who discourse. Probably not helping the stereotypes. Views my own. She/Her. https://linktr.ee/mindtheflap
Pinned
STOP comparing London railway termini
St Pancras is MAJESTIC
Waterloo is GIANT
King's Cross is ADVENTUROUS
London Bridge is SHINY
Liverpool Street has MANY CONNECTIONS
Victoria is CONVENIENT
Euston
Paddington is HISTORIC
Marylebone is COSY
St Pancras is MAJESTIC
Waterloo is GIANT
King's Cross is ADVENTUROUS
London Bridge is SHINY
Liverpool Street has MANY CONNECTIONS
Victoria is CONVENIENT
Euston
Paddington is HISTORIC
Marylebone is COSY
While it hasn't happened to me yet, "having my diagnosis questioned by a doctor I've never met who half-remembers reading some horrible headline somewhere" has sat firmly on the already long list of worries I have about medical appointments for a while. We're going backwards.
I wrote about systemic medical bias, chocolate medals and Eamonn Holmes
Diagnosed but not believed: Autistic women and the medical gaze
A GP I met for the first time three minutes ago is glancing over my electronic health record, trying to match it with the woman before him…
medium.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
While it hasn't happened to me yet, "having my diagnosis questioned by a doctor I've never met who half-remembers reading some horrible headline somewhere" has sat firmly on the already long list of worries I have about medical appointments for a while. We're going backwards.
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I wrote about systemic medical bias, chocolate medals and Eamonn Holmes
Diagnosed but not believed: Autistic women and the medical gaze
A GP I met for the first time three minutes ago is glancing over my electronic health record, trying to match it with the woman before him…
medium.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I wrote about systemic medical bias, chocolate medals and Eamonn Holmes
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If you are eligible for the mobility component of PIP, you can spend *your own money* topping that up to have a great accessible car. Critics should ask: Why are you against this? What it is about disabled people that makes you believe it’s wrong to have nice things they paid for themselves?
November 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
If you are eligible for the mobility component of PIP, you can spend *your own money* topping that up to have a great accessible car. Critics should ask: Why are you against this? What it is about disabled people that makes you believe it’s wrong to have nice things they paid for themselves?
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🚨 ♾ Our report out yesterday calls on HM Government to deliver an effective new autism strategy. Open this link committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... to view the following:
- Full report
- Easy Read report
- Report summary with conclusions and recommendations
- Shorthand
- Full report
- Easy Read report
- Report summary with conclusions and recommendations
- Shorthand
New autism strategy must deliver change for autistic people - Committees - UK Parliament
This is the key conclusion reached by the House of Lords special inquiry committee on the Autism Act 2009 in its report ‘Time to deliver: The Autism Act 2009 and the new autism strategy’.&...
committees.parliament.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:49 AM
🚨 ♾ Our report out yesterday calls on HM Government to deliver an effective new autism strategy. Open this link committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... to view the following:
- Full report
- Easy Read report
- Report summary with conclusions and recommendations
- Shorthand
- Full report
- Easy Read report
- Report summary with conclusions and recommendations
- Shorthand
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Today, @hlautismactcom.parliament.uk published their report, 'Time to deliver: The Autism Act 2009 and the new autism strategy'.
Access the full report and recommendations (including easy read report, video from the Chair, and shorthand story) here: committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... [1/4]
Access the full report and recommendations (including easy read report, video from the Chair, and shorthand story) here: committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... [1/4]
New autism strategy must deliver change for autistic people - Committees - UK Parliament
This is the key conclusion reached by the House of Lords special inquiry committee on the Autism Act 2009 in its report ‘Time to deliver: The Autism Act 2009 and the new autism strategy’.&...
committees.parliament.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Today, @hlautismactcom.parliament.uk published their report, 'Time to deliver: The Autism Act 2009 and the new autism strategy'.
Access the full report and recommendations (including easy read report, video from the Chair, and shorthand story) here: committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... [1/4]
Access the full report and recommendations (including easy read report, video from the Chair, and shorthand story) here: committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... [1/4]
I posted too close to the sun
November 23, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I posted too close to the sun
I was not a good fit for the corporate law route they push on everyone with my degree, I re-evaluated what it means to be autistic as I learned more about the neurodiversity movement and disability politics, and I became incapable of ever shutting up about it
November 23, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I was not a good fit for the corporate law route they push on everyone with my degree, I re-evaluated what it means to be autistic as I learned more about the neurodiversity movement and disability politics, and I became incapable of ever shutting up about it
thinking about the "podcast" I was really excited to listen to weeks ago but still haven't yet because it's not really a podcast at all, it's just a YouTube video, there's no actual podcast RSS feed to queue in the podcasting app I use and so I keep forgetting about it
*banging a metal pot with a wooden spoon very loudly*
people want to LISTEN to podcasts!!!!!!!!!!!!
*hitting you on the forehead with the spoon*
STOP PIVOTING TO VIDEO
www.westwoodone.com/blog/2025/11...
people want to LISTEN to podcasts!!!!!!!!!!!!
*hitting you on the forehead with the spoon*
STOP PIVOTING TO VIDEO
www.westwoodone.com/blog/2025/11...
November 22, 2025 at 8:50 AM
thinking about the "podcast" I was really excited to listen to weeks ago but still haven't yet because it's not really a podcast at all, it's just a YouTube video, there's no actual podcast RSS feed to queue in the podcasting app I use and so I keep forgetting about it
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It's the most wonderful time of the year: Scotland's gritter tracker is back! 🏴❄️🧊
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
November 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
It's the most wonderful time of the year: Scotland's gritter tracker is back! 🏴❄️🧊
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
this is going to be my earworm for the next thousand years, apologies in advance
youtu.be/IPoRGwAIEyo?...
youtu.be/IPoRGwAIEyo?...
Bastille - SAVE MY SOUL (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by BASTILLEvideos
youtu.be
November 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
this is going to be my earworm for the next thousand years, apologies in advance
youtu.be/IPoRGwAIEyo?...
youtu.be/IPoRGwAIEyo?...
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Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.
This is who it was:
This is who it was:
what in the double negative is that sentence
(also, vaccines do not cause autism, and autism is not some awful thing worth sacrificing vaccines over)
(also, vaccines do not cause autism, and autism is not some awful thing worth sacrificing vaccines over)
The CDC website now disseminates disinformation about vaccines, claiming erroneously that infant vaccines might cause autism, when we know conclusively that they do not. It is difficult to overstate just how dangerous this is. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
November 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
what in the double negative is that sentence
(also, vaccines do not cause autism, and autism is not some awful thing worth sacrificing vaccines over)
(also, vaccines do not cause autism, and autism is not some awful thing worth sacrificing vaccines over)
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The draft EHRC Code of Practice, as reported in the Times, now admits that there is no way to enforce the anti-trans bathroom ban other than based on policing the appearance and gender presentation of all service users.
#EHRC #TransRights #ScrapTheBathroomBan #Trans #Nonbinary #EqualityAct
#EHRC #TransRights #ScrapTheBathroomBan #Trans #Nonbinary #EqualityAct
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The draft EHRC Code of Practice, as reported in the Times, now admits that there is no way to enforce the anti-trans bathroom ban other than based on policing the appearance and gender presentation of all service users.
#EHRC #TransRights #ScrapTheBathroomBan #Trans #Nonbinary #EqualityAct
#EHRC #TransRights #ScrapTheBathroomBan #Trans #Nonbinary #EqualityAct
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Who down detects the down detectors?!
November 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Who down detects the down detectors?!
Turns out both DownDetector and DownForEveryoneOrJustMe use Cloudflare so are currently, themselves, down
November 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Turns out both DownDetector and DownForEveryoneOrJustMe use Cloudflare so are currently, themselves, down
I shouldn't laugh really, but this story has absolutely made my morning so sharing in case it makes yours too
The brutal reality of life as an Android owner in London: First you’re shocked as you’re mugged. Then you’re humiliated as the thief returns the device. www.londoncentric.media/p/london-pho...
"Don't want no Samsung"
Plus: Scroll down to see what might be the strangest new artwork in the capital and read more on our investigations into the capital's landlords.
www.londoncentric.media
November 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I shouldn't laugh really, but this story has absolutely made my morning so sharing in case it makes yours too
Raise your hand if you have been personally victimised by the missing data submission in the quarterly NHS autism waiting times statistics
November 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Raise your hand if you have been personally victimised by the missing data submission in the quarterly NHS autism waiting times statistics
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Really enjoying today's discourse about how they can easily get around James Bond being seemingly dead by simply *INSERT APPROACH THAT HAS PROMPTED REAL-LIFE OUTRAGE FROM SOME ANGRY DOCTOR WHO FANS IN THE PAST SIX MONTHS HERE*
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Really enjoying today's discourse about how they can easily get around James Bond being seemingly dead by simply *INSERT APPROACH THAT HAS PROMPTED REAL-LIFE OUTRAGE FROM SOME ANGRY DOCTOR WHO FANS IN THE PAST SIX MONTHS HERE*
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Lloyd Didcot, 32, took the unusual step to not carefully prepare a mental script for his coffee order last Friday and, subsequently, experienced the actual, literal torture of eternal damnation for about five minutes in his local Costa.
Autistic man neglects to plan conversation in advance, experiences literal Christian hell
An autistic man who routinely plans his conversations well in advance decided to ditch the habit of a lifetime “to see what it was like”, landing him in a Biblical underworld of Christian hell,…
thedailytism.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Lloyd Didcot, 32, took the unusual step to not carefully prepare a mental script for his coffee order last Friday and, subsequently, experienced the actual, literal torture of eternal damnation for about five minutes in his local Costa.
This reminds me, I've got to write scripts for the GP call I've waited two months for that I probably still won't manage to say and get fobbed off
Lloyd Didcot, 32, took the unusual step to not carefully prepare a mental script for his coffee order last Friday and, subsequently, experienced the actual, literal torture of eternal damnation for about five minutes in his local Costa.
Autistic man neglects to plan conversation in advance, experiences literal Christian hell
An autistic man who routinely plans his conversations well in advance decided to ditch the habit of a lifetime “to see what it was like”, landing him in a Biblical underworld of Christian hell,…
thedailytism.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
This reminds me, I've got to write scripts for the GP call I've waited two months for that I probably still won't manage to say and get fobbed off
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NEW POST: @captaink77.bsky.social gives a stark warning that reforms for #SEND funding reforms will be immensely painful—but the current situation is chaotic and sinking fast. www.specialneedsjungle.com/s... #SENDsky
November 4, 2025 at 6:02 AM
NEW POST: @captaink77.bsky.social gives a stark warning that reforms for #SEND funding reforms will be immensely painful—but the current situation is chaotic and sinking fast. www.specialneedsjungle.com/s... #SENDsky
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Haven't been able to stop thinking about the bravery of this man. Just another morning, off you go to your nice, normal rail job, and by the end of the day you've put your life on the line to save other people's.
November 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Haven't been able to stop thinking about the bravery of this man. Just another morning, off you go to your nice, normal rail job, and by the end of the day you've put your life on the line to save other people's.