Ok, let's see if Scotland want me...

And a fairly instant no. Though due to no capacity from the academic rather than me/my research (I hope!)

An independent taskforce *just* did a huge review of ADHD in England, and the conclusion was that it's "under-recognised, under-diagnosed and under-treated."
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...

needs. We need reasonable adjustments, support, flexibility, time off for appointments, etc.

If the government wants everyone working, they need to make employers the focus of their reviews rather than blaming people with neurological and physiological differences for existing

getting people into non-existent jobs (I mean, the neurotypical, fit and well are struggling to find jobs so how you expect anyone else to?!)...

Employers do not want to employ neurodivergent, mentally unwell, chronically ill or disabled people. Because we're not good little worker drones with zero

timely manner. Enable clinical psychologists to also diagnose ADHD to take the pressure off psychiatry. Improve support at school, work and at home by maintaining DLA/PIP, Access to Work, consistent access to good counselling, occupational therapy and overall health care.

And while the focus is on

framed to look at 'overdiagnosis' tells me there is one objective here and its not about actually helping people. Much like the debunked Cass Review hasnt helped Trans kids.

All Streeting has to do is open up more clinical psychologist training posts so there are enough to diagnose people in a

changed. Greater academic demands from a younger age. A massive shift in occupations (so those quiet, solitary, manual roles are mostly gone). Greater financial pressures, and then just the general hostility to anyone that is 'different' right now adding to it all...

The way the review has been

to Work provide, which the government is reducing btw).

There is increased diagnosis. Mostly due to better understanding and awareness of these conditions but also because the world has become harder to live in if you're neurodivergent. It's sensory overload out there! Social expectations have

this capitalist government. You can't fit neurodivergence into neat little boxes on a diagnosis chart with simple cures/support to get people into work. There is no cure, everyone needs their own unique scaffold of support to meet their individual needs (you know the kind of things PIP and Access

better picture of how neurodivergence actually manifests. Showing that the stereotypes may be true in some cases but not for all. That they are spectrum conditions not from mild to severe in a linear line but like a colour wheel which looks different for everyone.

And therein lies the issue for

about what these conditions are meant to look at.

These stereotypes were created by biased research (misogyny, 1930s Germany, the class system, and capitalism to name a few). Over the last 20 years research has got better, its more ethical and empirical, its peer-reviewed and it's given us a much

Thanks, we're trying!