I try not to let it get to me, but honestly, the backlash against people like me existing and trying to help other people has got to the point where I watch crime documentaries to unwind.

My body is a machine that turns “you saying a sentence with the slightest passing resemblance of a song lyric” into “me interrupting the conversation to sing that line of the song”

As the trans community have known for a while now - the definition of activist is someone who dares to state they exist

Just seen that Terence Rattigan’s ‘Man and Boy’ is coming to the National Theatre next year… www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/productions/... This, from 21 years ago, has survived many moves/clearouts/unhappy phonecalls to HSBC…

Latest from me: on overdiagnosis, a craze/bandwagon the govt is indulging by commissioning an official review, complete with the clunky blurring of mental illness & neurodivergence www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Oh, they’ve decorated the rail replacement bus for Christmas…

Xanga! If you know, you know…

The BBC live text commentator is not enjoying themselves.

Blue Jays having a bit of a scrum in the snow.

[Buildings around the country keep burning down]. "Hmm, the solution here is, we need to be more strict about how we're defining 'fire'."

He can fight me for it.

Wes Streeting urgently needs a visit from some ghosts this Christmas – forget "pathologising feelings," maybe they'll be able to stop his GPs prescribing antidepressants as a sticking plaster for everything from anxiety to menopause. By me for The Independent. www.independent.co.uk/voices/wes-s...

Making friends

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

No one’s liked my joke! Please like my joke! Etc…

Someone’s invited me to join a group about rejection sensitivity. Better say yes to that, then…

Thank you to The Bridport News for this piece about my book. Which, in the print edition, is right next to a NIB about beavers… www.bridportnews.co.uk/news/2564910...

Yes, I’m 41…

If you’re seeing a lot about limerence in your feeds lately and it rings some bells, I’ve also just recorded a podcast episode on it for ADHD/autistic women, which is due out early next year… www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Born Tomáš Straussler he became Tom Stoppard. A genius of the English theatre. Last play of his I saw was Leopoldstadt in 2021. A glorious engineer of theatre has passed away. Long may his words inspire.

Amazing, really, that there are still people who think writers can’t be autistic. I mean, “caring enough about something to spend years thinking about it for little or no money” is your first clue right there…

“She’s never boring…”

Long distance relationship texts…

Caught the lurgy again. Wtf, body.

🎄1 month til Christmas! If you’re lucky enough to have a Dyspraxic or ADHD person in your life, my book “No Heels No Problem: A Neurodivergent Survival Guide to Adult Life When You’re Dyspraxic or ADHD” would make a lovely gift. *AND it’s dead easy to wrap & unwrap! uk.jkp.com/products/no-...

narrator: 50 years ago... me: [nods] in 1945 narrator: in 1975... me: what

Facts which are still blowing my mind: Atomic Kitten were put together by one of OMD… www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... Tracks which are still banging: ‘Scandalous” by Misteeq.

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

From my Facebook memories today. A useful reminder that hyphens can be very important...

German words we need: The guilt - when the way your brain works could render you offputting to others - of describing someone else with a similar brain as being offputting*… *none of you, just fyi

RIP Mani youtu.be/3QLMS0QsPF0

Oh no 😢 www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

This infographic makes it look like Dyspraxics are wanted for a spate of burglaries in the Thames Ditton area…

Today’s Thing: Did probably the most personal int I’ve ever done (for a podcast, due out in Feb). Coincidentally, today is also the anniversary of one of life’s ‘Before’ and ‘After’ moments. If you know, you know, etc…

(Lovely, I should add…)

So today I was interviewed by a reporter at the paper where I did work experience the year before she was born…

By mimicking Reform to win back support, the Labour government is making a serious mistake. This race to the bottom emboldens Farage, punishes vulnerable people, amplifies racism, and undermines those working to hold communities together.

Love this thread. Although not, obviously, the situation. (Historically, my version of ‘showing up at your house with a baseball bat’ is ‘writing an ill-advisable long letter’. Which can go about as well…)

whenever the sun sets at 4:45 pm i open a window, lean out and yell "WRONG" as loud as i can. that usually buys me another hour or two of sunlight

What is happening

Been indoors with some phase of lurgy for most of November. Today I went out for a sunny walk with a podcast on in prep for a book event, and it felt like how I felt after I ran 18 miles for the first time…

As a teenage girl, you believe you are much older than you are. The job of adults is to try and disabuse you of that notion. Exploiting it is unforgivable.

Oh my

“One of the things that really gives me joy is the fact that there are so many amazing, brilliant, creative disabled people out there. But part of my rage — and it’s a very real rage — is that most people don’t really know about them.” Obit:

It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

Happy Fenton Day to all who celebrate. Jesus Christ, fourteen years. youtu.be/3GRSbr0EYYU

It’s day 107 since I first caught a bad throat and I’ve forgotten a time when it didn’t hurt to swallow. If anyone makes an innuendo out of this, naughty step for you…

The current definition of the word 'charismatic' seems to have replaced that dreaded phrase 'a bit of a character'.

Um…no…?