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...

“Framing autism as some kind of disease that needs to be eradicated is harmful. It hurts autistic people living their lives right now.” In @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #autism #neurodiversity #VaccinesWork and have nothing to do with autism

I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.

Great No Minnesota Nice for ICE

A talk I gave earlier this year has, unfortunately, become relevant again this week so I've published it here. open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...

People say FIFA disgraced itself by having that little Trump ceremony. Habibi, it’s FIFA. People died building the Qatari stadium for the last World Cup and it held the World Cup in Russia before that.

Another reason why I cannot stand FIFA. Were are the flagshagging football "fans" to tell Trump to keep politics out of football?!

This a work of art, Wesbot 1000 stanning Brainworm. Plus a complementary Daily Tism dart board to boot.

Am I the only one in thinking that tonight's Channel 4 news segment on "overdiagnosis" was a an exercise in promoting the overdiagnosis rhetoric, devoid of any journalistic objectivity?

So this British review into whether too many people are getting ADHD and autism diagnoses will be led by a psychoanalyst who thinks everything is about attachment and trauma, and his deputy will be a guy who thinks ME/CFS is primarily a mental health problem.

Poor attempt at backpedaling from Streeting, he knows that he had fucked up. Again he is proofing Dawn Foster true in her assessment of him in being a "right wing lickspittle cunt"!

Farage's favourite childhood 'comedian' has been dead for 18 years! Sorry Nigel you cannot Beetlejuice the bastard back into public live.

It too predicable of Streeting to start a culture war on neurodiversity and disability when he has form of targeting trans people. Streeting is just as harmful as RFK Jr to disability rights!

The dishonestly of Reeves in the respect that she came 4th in the U21s in 1993 and was *joint* U14 girls champion. In other news am a 'FIDE Grandmaster' if Reeves claim to be sole 1993 U14 BWCA champion.

Take it that Connor is not a student of British history by referring to three South Asian former British colonies. If Connor is so concerned about foreign influence on parliament, when he should focus on Russian influence on Reform UK!

When you get to the stage of the UN calling out a G15 'social' landlord, then you know there is a problem. #ukhousing

Mansion tax but cannot get rid of the bedroom tax. Reeves as to go!

What does this mean for SEND & education? From the OBR report

It ain’t the first time RFK has prompted this kind of enemy of my enemy statement, but it’s good to see each time.

Wakefield can do humanity a favour by crawling back under his rock and keeping the hell away from public life!

Spend most the day reading the full report from the house of Lords on the autism act. Spotted this gem of research in the written evidence submissions. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It was 49 years ago, guessing very little has changed in Farage's attitude over that course of time.

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]

Watching this right now, Best in Show. Perfect for dog loves.

Great question to the leadership of Russian UK. Or should that be Rubles OK?!

Ten and half years jail sentence for taking bribes, not a good day for Rubles OK.

Its the messenger not the message that is the issue here. Platforming a message and messenger as an exercise in reputation management. Laundering reputation does very little to address the sector's toxic culture. #ukhousing

The latest Cloudflare and Amazon outages have got me thinking about utilities. We can't build modern software without dependencies. The days of running entirely on the client are over, which I see as a good thing. The cost is that we rely on infrastructure. 1/5

Ear defenders have a valuable use in blocking out the nonsense that comes out of Dick Lice's mouth.

One of those cases of a dog food vendor warning about their own brand and type of dog food.

Wow. Pope Leo XIV with one of the most eloquent and profound statements about algorithms, art and cinema you are likely to read.

A Government of cowards. Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution. They can't get away with this. Join.greenparty.org.uk

This made me wonder about the etymology of quack. “…short for quacksalver (1570s), from obsolete Dutch quacksalver (modern kwakzalver), literally ‘hawker of salve’”

I don’t want McSweeney sacked because of this briefing ‘war’. I want him sacked because he’s steered Labour down such an awful, xenophobic path and paved the way for Farage in number 10.

Whoaaaaa

Streeting vs Starmer, a Morgan "Baldrick" McSweeney Production.

Our new research paper is out! " ‘A Lovely Safe Umbrella to Describe Yourself With’ or ‘Meaningless’: An Online Survey of UK-Based Neurodivergent Adults’ Views of Neurodiversity-Related Terminology." In Neurodiversity Journal, 3. doi.org/10.1177/2754...

American Healthcare Policy 2025

Brainworm host, a real life "Brave" Sir Robin!

Another reason why creative industries need disabled voices and those industries need to remove barriers for disabled people to work and succeed in those industries.

Well that is a first Labour knocking up on doorstep, I clearly told them why I don't for them and that I vote for the Greens.

Prince Andrew Stripped Of Royal Computer Privileges https://theonion.com/prince-andrew-stripped-of-royal-computer-privileges/

Emerson tried everything she could think of to deter people without having to speak to them, from hiding in her living room with the lights off to standing motionless in the hallway disguised as a lamp.

If she can't be arsed get a landlord licence, when she can't be trusted with setting social housing rents. Rachel Reeves has to go!

“The human body is able to do some incredible things if you consume enough lead,” said the secretary of health and human services

I been lucky to get an advanced copy of this report this month into Riverside's dealings in the Langley estate in Middleton Greater Manchester. All in the #ukhousing sector need to read it, as it is quiet damning into Riverside's conduct.

All the biggest autism charities in England and Wales use forms of ABA e.g. PBS on autistic people in their care. Their income is more than £325 million a year between them, nearly all of it from Government sources. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... & background research by me on the others.

If only Vincent Price played an autism assessor in a film called Autism Assessor!