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Hannah Hill @hh-petrichor.bsky.social · 1d

#AutismArtOfThePossible

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Hannah Hill @hh-petrichor.bsky.social · 1d

Excited @at-autism.bsky.social

Agenda for today’s AT Autism’s conference “Autism: The art of the possible”.

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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · Jul 23

An unclaimed #buyastrangerabook offer!

@kerankaur77.bsky.social is offering to buy someone a novel up to £20!

Any novel at all, not just what's on my website.

It's #buyastrangerabook day, so if there's something in particular you'd like, just get in touch.

UK only

Keranjit Kaur @kerankaur77.bsky.social · Jul 23

Hi Simon. 👋🏽 I would like to #buyastrangerabook that is fiction and costs up to £20 including p+p.

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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · Jul 23

This #buyastrangerabook offer from @catphoto.bsky.social keeps on rolling.

No takers last week.
No takers so far this week.

A free book to anyone who works in the service industry etc, up to £20.

Check the offer out and if you'd like a book, do get in touch.

UK only

Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · Jul 23

Here's an unclaimed #buyastrangerabook offer from last week.

@catphoto.bsky.social has sent me some dosh and would like to buy someone a book up to £20 for anyone in a service industry/gig-economy job (restaurants, etc)

If this is you and there's a book you'd like, get in touch.

UK only.

Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · Jul 23

IT'S WEDNESDAY!

It's #buyastrangerabook day.

The grooviest day of all the days.

I'll give out TWO books.

FOR FREE.

If you'd like one, let me know.

Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know.

It's a thing! Look.

www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...

UK only.

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Grace Spence Green @gracespencegreen.bsky.social · Feb 7

On the 25th October 2018, from my hospital bed, I began to write. 1/5

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Hannah Hill @hh-petrichor.bsky.social · Jul 9

Just finished listening to #ToExistAsIAm by @gracespencegreen.bsky.social Brilliant writing and I always love it when audiobooks are narrated so authentically by the author.

Front cover image of the book To Exist As I Am by Grace Spence Green. It shows a doctor wearing dark pink scrubs with a stethoscope around her neck, sitting in a wheelchair facing forwards. Her dark brown hair is just visible on her shoulders but her head is out of shot of the photo.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · May 23

The Afterword of Normally Weird including horror movies and dark angels uk.bookshop.org/p/books/norm... #normallyweird

AFTERWORD
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I finished this book while attending Abertoir: The International Horror Festival of Wales. I added my final adjective and then celebrated by attending a screening of Zombi with live accompaniment by the composer Fabio Frizzi. Love flowed in between the dismemberments and eye-gouging. The union of the frequently neurodivergent horror fans seemed even more empowering than usual, as the festival was one week after Trump's second presidential victory. The absurdity of zombies was not as absurd as the world itself.
I know that many people, including possibly you, have been hit hard by what appears to be a rubber stamp for regression, for a dismissal of anyone who is seen not to be 'normal enough'.
Even though weird' was used by the Democrat campaign to try to insult the Republicans, we know that those who the mainstream most often smears as weird' will suffer more under the new admin-istration. Across issues of ethnicity, gender and neurodivergence, existential despair has been evident.
I write this just to remind you that there are many allies ready to support and fight for you and those you love. And for all those who like to sneer at anything deemed as woke', keep the actor Kathy Burke's words in mind: 'They're calling you "woke" if you call out
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NORMALLY WEIRD AND WEIRDLY NORMAL
bad things, basically. If you're not racist, you're woke. If you're not homophobic, oh, you're woke. Be woke, kids. Be woke. Be wide awake and fucking call it out?'
Or, as she put even more succinctly: T love being woke, it's much better than being an ignorant fucking twat?
Know that there are many people in the world who want more light, more acceptance, more joy and more inclusion for everyone.
While writing this book, I gained a new habit. I have been energetically writing poetry.
It is a good hobby for ADHD people. You see something exciting, your mind fizzes, words pour out, there is just time to finish the poem before your mind gets distracted by a new fascination. One morning, returning from a trip to Slovakia, I was having a hasty* back-and-forth of direct messages with the librarian and author Stuart Hennigan. He mentioned the 'dark angels' that haunt so many of us.
This was my reaction.
Finally
I clipped the wings of the dark angels That had fluttered for so long like moths
In the last lone light of night
Once it was black
They were there.
Invisible
But ever-present
They'd beat their wings against the cooling bulb.
Only I could hear the flapping, But I'd deny there was a sound For fear of showing weakness.
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then, one day Now in middle age I found the way To quieten down their relentlessness.
I exposed them
By speaking up aloud.
Uncowed.
Not unafraid
But less afraid.
Not bold
But bolder:
Speaking out
They tumbled and twirled like maple seeds
Spinning to the woodland floor.
Not banished Or vanished.
But unfed
Underfoot And famished.
So nearly vanquished.
They might still flutter at my heels, But they can't carry me away
Not now.
To all of you, however your minds may fizz and bubble, I wish you a life unmasked, full of kindness, curiosity and adventure. Let us fight the dark angels together.
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Hannah Hill @hh-petrichor.bsky.social · May 18

Well that was awesome, thanks. Teen is ready to devour the signed books. If you haven’t heard @robinince.bsky.social talking about his new book (and lots of other stuff) yet, get yourselves a ticket.

Four books, which are all by Robin Ince. They are entitled “Normally weird and Weirdly Normal, my adventures in neurodiversity”, “biblio maniac, an obsessive’s tour of the bookshops of Britain”, “I’m a joke and so are you. Reflections on humour and humanity”, and “the importance of being interested. Adventures in scientific curiosity”.

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Hannah Hill @hh-petrichor.bsky.social · May 17

Well that’s my Sunday afternoon plans sorted then 📚

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Hannah Hill @hh-petrichor.bsky.social · May 1

Fantastic podcast

Frieda grosgean @bernaharbor.bsky.social · Apr 30

Well… it is about coming out as an autistic psychiatrist, about the patients who are teaching me so much, all the time, & diversity as a fact #autism #autisticdoctor #neurodiversity #psychiatry Psychiatrists/Education/Podcasts/Medical-Mind/2025/Mental-Health-Pathfinders-Evolving-Psychiatry-Thro

Mental Health Pathfinders: Evolving Psychiatry Through a Neurodiverse Lens

In this episode of Mental Health Pathfinders, psychiatrist Dr. Bernadette Grosjean shares her powerful journey of receiving an autism diagnosis later in life.

www.psychiatry.org

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Hannah Hill @hh-petrichor.bsky.social · Apr 26

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Chris and his farmily of forever friends @caenhillcc.bsky.social · Apr 26

Greetings and good morning it’s the Saturday farm rush hour with our forever animal friends

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · Apr 25

My new workshop:small museums for mental health, is now live.
I'll teach you how creating small museums alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health & we'll make small museums together
24 May,zoom, recording available afterwards
Open to anyone,anywhere
workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/smal...

Collection of spring nature finds in antique typesetter's tray

Collection of finds from Old Hunstanton beach made in 2019

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Landis Blair @landisblair.bsky.social · Apr 24

Inking…

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Mary Doherty @autisticdoctor.bsky.social · Apr 22

“I call myself disabled so that others with disabilities across a wide spectrum might one day feel comfortable doing the same.
Because life is, indeed, too short for someone else’s shame.”
@amandaleduc.bsky.social
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/09/16/l...

Life is Too Short for Someone Else’s Shame

“Life is Too Short for Someone Else’s Shame”: Why I Call Myself a Disabled Writer Amanda Leduc From 2008 – 2010, I lived for a time in Edinburgh, Scotland. One of the jobs I had while there …

disabilityvisibilityproject.com

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Hannah Hill @hh-petrichor.bsky.social · Apr 25

Familiar..

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · Apr 25

Happy Friday! It's #WorldPenguinDay so I thought I'd remind you that penguins do have knees, they just aren't where you think they should be.

An x-ray of a penguin showing the knees much higher up on the body than one would think.

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Ligus @greyauk.bsky.social · Apr 25

Happy #WorldPenguinDay 🐧
🐡

A sketch of a standing Humboldt penguin
...mostly black and white with pink around the eyes

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Hannah Hill @hh-petrichor.bsky.social · Apr 25

Lovely morning dog walk to the sound of skylarks

Teasels in the foreground, which are brown and bristly, not in flower yet. Behind them is a green meadow and the sky is bright blue with some fluffy clouds.

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Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), Bristol @capcbristol.bsky.social · Apr 24

New #grief research centre - the first of its kind in the UK - launched today.

The Centre, led by @goodgrieffest.bsky.social founders @lucyselman.bsky.social & @leseldawson.bsky.social, hopes to change public attitudes towards grief & improve community support for the bereaved.

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New UK Centre hopes to change public attitudes towards grief

Grief affects everyone but is still very much a taboo subject in the UK. A new Centre - the first of its kind in the UK - hopes to shift public attitudes towards grief and create communities that are ...

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Janet Lansbury @janetlansbury.bsky.social · Apr 22

Sick and despicable

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Apr 22

The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.

HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth

In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.

www.motherjones.com

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · Apr 21

Treating autism as shameful or blaming environmental factors is a step back to the days when scientists blamed unloving mothers or vaccines. It focuses on blame rather than supports. Focusing on the causes takes away money from lifespan issues and supports and services.

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Hannah Hill @hh-petrichor.bsky.social · Apr 21

I can’t pick just one.
When the Dust Settles, Strong Female Character, Own Your Period, Unheard, Girl Unmasked, The Panopticon, lots more..

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Hannah Hill @hh-petrichor.bsky.social · Apr 20

Hippo #crochet

A little crochet hippo in the palm of my hand.

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Emma @emmbean.bsky.social · Apr 20

Parkrun is the most inclusive group physical activity I can think of. And the only physical activity my non-binary teen feels comfortable doing. Thank you #parkrun for allowing people of all genders to be who they are at your events 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · Apr 20

They're going after Parkrun again, you know, that event where lots of people of all ages, abilities and genders run around a local park and it not, in any form, a race?

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · Apr 20

They're going after Parkrun again, you know, that event where lots of people of all ages, abilities and genders run around a local park and it not, in any form, a race?

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