Deep dive today into the personal accounts of #ADHD and #autistic young people who are not attending school. This work is part of the @grrand-team.bsky.social generously funded by Barts Charity, alongside our brilliant RESTAR youth co-researchers co-delivering creative personalised interviews.

If you read one thing this weekend, read this. The way we treat young people who are a little 'different' is endlessly shocking. With thanks and respect to Kate Szymankiewicz. From theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

"...like a good little rule follower, I listened and trusted their advice. I was grateful even, for someone to tell me how to navigate this. Yet, all the while, a little voice inside me knew that Ruth needed something different." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Did this today. It was great. Only the sound of pencil on paper!

This is how I plan to keep going as a class teacher when the retirement age goes up.

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Just over a week until publication of my new book on the joys and power of curiosity - the perfect gift for someone interested in maths or politics or archaeology or physics or art or poetry - also ideal for anyone not yet interested in those things who should be.

She gave ICE a proper NYC welcome. 😜

There's a whole other world out there: www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...

Heartbreaking figures. The causes will, of course, be complex. But a caricatured debate about 'overdiagnosis' is a dangerous distraction when, as @mind.org.uk's @gemmabyrne.bsky.social says here, over half a million under-18s are on mental health waiting lists www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Big Jim's bike trip to Braemar. Stick with it to the end. The pay off is worthy of Beckett. youtu.be/cZk2jV5gJbM?...

A certain psychiatrist seems to be having a moment. Entertaining and serious review of his book. substack.com/@sluggish/no...

Donald Trump posts a video of himself wearing a crown as he flies a jet with "King Trump" written in gold on it, dumping shit onto protesters in American cities, which rather makes the protesters point for them.

If you've not seen the #waitrose posts ⬇️ Where "volunteering" and work placement schemes are used to exploit chronically ill, disabled and neurodivergent people. It's dire... All this talk about working people ah? @rachelcdailey.bsky.social @francesryan.bsky.social

Shared via @emergentdivergence.com The Problem with “Invented Labels" A Critique of Sami Timimi’s Interview on SEND, Autism, and ADHD www.davidgrayhammond.co.uk/p/the-proble...

Thankful to @autisticrealms.bsky.social and @emergentdivergence.com to be first out the gate on the @tesmagazine.bsky.social article Why ‘invented’ SEND labels are disabling pupils, October 2025.. Suspect won't be the only one. autisticrealms.com/inclusion-ne...

As for this a rebuttal published in ResearchGate describes Timimi's critique of ADHD as a "misrepresentation of the existing scientific literature" based on "faulty logic, selective citation," and "ignorance of the vast literature" on the disorder. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

The TES interview with Sami Timimi reeks of outdated eugenic paternalism dressed up as “critical thinking.” /🧵

Shades of this: vm.tiktok.com/ZNdWutNCe/

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage. Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

Sometimes I don’t like the term Acquired Brain Injury cause it sounds like you bought the fucken thing. HA!😳😆😆Ian

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education. America’s children deserve better than this.

A bit of nostalgia for parents, children and teachers who remember the antics of Biff, Chip and Floppy. #Reading

Yes true very true #inclusion

I find these explanations rather amphibious.

Next they’re going to tell us autism is caused by the demand to release the Epstein files.

Ok, did not expect “The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe” to feel quite so relevant to this moment. Here’s Edmund, deciding to side with the leader who he’s been told disappears people.

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying” (#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

All my comics have happy endings!

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

This is wild! Do they think that by planting DWP staff in GP surgeries, that this will help people with mental health issues. I suspect it will make people think twice about going to their surgery and people will become more ill. WHO is coming up with these ideas??

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.

We all hoped the Windrush scandal would be shame enough. But no. The Tory party plumbs new depths with its vile rhetoric. Nothing good comes from their prejudice. But our communities prove them wrong every day. Important response to Jenrick from @sathnam.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/article/3af4...

Heseltine at the Tory conf: "Fascists of the 30s are back... Trump's language coincides with words here... The immigrant has replaced the Jew as the problem. We must make clear we will never have any part in the populist extremism of Farage... We don't need Trump's mouthpiece anywhere near No. 10.”

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

This is something that's been worrying me since it was announced a few months ago. I've been here for 4 years, have invested in this country, believe in the future of it, am literally teaching the children of it, but the thought I won't be able to be treated as a citizen is disturbing to me.

Tbh, the whole anti-migrant rhetoric is already making my friends on ILR look at moving. Of course, they’re all the ones with the money and talent *to* move. Which isn’t what politicians are selling as the consequence of ILR-bashing. But it’s what will happen.

The US is now four months away from losing its measles elimination status. 1544 confirmed cases reported by the CDC.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov 37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois. This is assault.

How do autistic young people experience universal mental health interventions at school? Please read/share this 🙏 A mum recently got in touch with me to share a story about her autistic daughter’s experience of mental health lessons in school (🧵)

Recently read Caro Giles book, Unschooled. "When children are forced to deteriorate to such a poorly state, recovery is harder to manage and becomes a much longer process than it needs to be... A sick child cannot learn."

Just saw this comment with regard to Pete Hegseth's love for fun socks. I will tell you why fun socks are bad in a tailored outfit. 🧵

1/2 I may be wrong, but I think this is the first time this has been put plainly by a cabinet minister I’ve had conversations with non Labour people at conference, from right to hard right, & they’ve identified the indefinite leave policy as targeting non-Europeans for deportations i.e not white

Wonder if I can use this in my next digital citizenship lesson...

Democrat @raskin.house.gov excoriates Nigel Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events: "I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"