Form 2 instructor course day 5.

We did!

Chris Packham, "This country voted in a party with a massive majority and a mandate for change"

"All we see is Labour kowtowing to the far right. This causes me enormous concern"

"I'm frustrated, I'm angry, and I've frightened"

"And I get more scared every single day"

"I ask you to consider that autism itself has the power to bring people joy. I experience happiness to the extreme. I can be entertained by the simplest things. I show ppl love in the most unique ways.” Marcy Hannah Waring, @ejwillingham.bsky.social's TPGA newsletter:

buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...

These Supreme Court oral arguments on conversion therapy are going to be painful. No matter what is said, know that trying to force someone to be what they're not is psychological torture with measurable negative consequences, and anyone trying to defend such efforts is a bigoted monster.

This is AJ Link, known here as Łink. He's awesome. He's been permabanned for basically just making the CEO, Jay Graber, mad. This was a monumentally stupid decision that, AFAICT, may result in the collapse of Bluesky due to a loss of trust, but we'll see. The smart thing to do would be to #FreeŁink

Never forget that Dolly Parton gave a million bucks for covid research at the *very start* of the pandemic—including money that helped fund the development of the Moderna vaccine.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

"Just to be clear: A lack of recognition, supports, & accommodations & the presence of co-occurring conditions does not mean that some people have “profound autism.” Autistic people are all autistic. Period." From @ejwillingham.bsky.social in the new TPGA newsletter.

tinyurl.com/TPGAprofoundAutism

Leaving the ECHR would allow the State Pension, the Minimum Wage, Sick Pay, Maternity Pay, Paid Holiday and working hour limits to all be abolished.

They would make hundreds of billions from this.

That is what they want.

"The kind of 'nerdy white men' that love their trains and love their maths, and I think there is a place for that because obviously those people do exist, but there are also different types of [autistic] people." Molly Siobhan Parker, yet another adult-diagnosed woman.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Billy Bragg has started a ‘reclaim the lampposts’ campaign and is happy to supply these stickers for you to attach to lampposts with flags on. If you want to call the Xenophobes out then send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Billy Bragg at Bragg Office PO Box 6830, Bridport DT6 9BH

As a so-called low support needs person (rolling my eyes), I wish I could get my voice put there to help those of us who can't advocate for themselves. We need to be heard. All of us. Some of us are able to get the message out but have no agency. More accommodations help everyone.

No @nytimes.com

The autism spectrum should NOT be split apart

The term “profound autism” does not help in determining meaningful supports for autistic people with complex disabilities.

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/04/crea...

@thinkingautism.com #autism #AutismAcceptance

Why invisible autism is hurting so many of us.

A timeline.

We do things. We experience consequences for those things. We mask...

I just turned 59.

I was clinically diagnosed: Autistic with ADHD a scant 4 years ago, at age 55!

I was born Autistic with ADHD. My whole family is neurodivergent. We just didn't know it because no one understood it as well as we do now. Especially in women.

I EXIST

SO DO A LOT MORE

All that stacking of and climbing up and down boxes made him too hot, lol

im sorry about doing so much autism posting i just am out here really loving having a weird brain and i think it sucks so bad that people want to eliminate people like me so bad they are willing to kill kids over it. though tbh they are willing to kill kids for a lot of other reasons

Join @everydoctor.org.uk
Join @weownit.org.uk
Join anything else that supports the NHS

But at the very LEAST- follow them on here

The PFI disaster

Wes Streeting readies more of the NHS for privatisation. Hands £6m to advisers.

NHS will be a shell doling out contracts to private equity and corporations. Profits guaranteed.

Money will buy less. Higher taxes, lower value.

Say NO to privatisation of the NHS.

Autistic and neurodivergent people deserve far better than a government looking to prevent their existence, let alone one that will invent fictitious ways to do so that puts everyone in danger

It appears the foreseeable future will be even more difficult for autistic people & their loved ones because of the heinous disinformation coming from the US government &their supporters. We should not need to reiterate the humanity of Autistic people, but here we are, watching as progress is erased