New Years Resolutions: #1 Stop obsessively making lists. #2 Damn.

-You boy! What day is this? -Why it's New Year's Day, sir! -New Year's Day? Those ghosts did it, all in one night! Tell me, young fellow, you know the stationer's shop around the corner? Do they still have the prize calendar in the window?

What was your biggest impact on the internet? Mine, I fear, is this:

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were: MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles) Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna) MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls) MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)

Now Boxing Day is over it’s finally my favourite day of the year, Christmas Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve 1/7

He's fuckeing a fysh He's fucking it twice Disobeying UNIT's science advise Russell Tovey's fuckeing A fysh

POV: You find a "serves 4-8" mini cheesecake recipe and decide to make 1.5x the quantity so you'll definitely have enough to take back to your parents on Boxing Day

Visualising a universe where Russell Tovey occasionally emerges from the sea to take his abandoned child out for a McDonald’s meal. The staff sigh as they fill a barrel-sized paper cup with water for Tovey to slosh in, used to the routine. Kirby, glaring, orders the Filet-O-Fish. No salt.

This is how I would end the news if I was reading the news.

MOOD

2026 anyone?

An autistic man recently appointed the latest Father Christmas has announced robust new policies to guarantee the integrity of the naughty-or-nice system. Check this and other exclusive articles on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/116744...

It's a lovely 6th Day of Christmas at my true love's house, and you are six horrible geese

Thoughts and prayers with my boyfriend, who has chosen THIS TIME OF YEAR to make a bindicator for some reason

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Continuing my red-hot take of "I like Doctor Who", The War Between is very fun. Do not expect mind-blowing television, but I'm really enjoying it for what it is

I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.

Last week the government indicated that creating more specialist places in mainstream can bring down SEND spending but sector leaders and heads have warned that this won't deliver significant savings in the short term and needs more than just capital funding. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

I've had two ultrasound scans in the past two years, and both sonographers specifically complimented me on my perfectly full bladder, which made me so happy because I tried really hard to follow the instructions around what to drink when Clearly they turned out to be The Daily Tism spies

Can confirm that I shouted "CORBYITE MENTION" at my TV last night watching Map Men

it is frustrating to be thinking "I need to take time to consider my thoughts before commenting, there's a lot of nuance, I'm not sure what to make of it yet" and then see one of the usual columnists with no experience or expertise on neurodivergence whatsoever go "I CAN HELP ASK ME I KNOW IT ALL"

Credit where it's due, Suzanne O'Sullivan states explicitly in the opening chapter of The Age Of Diagnosis that she is not arguing for welfare cuts. So I assume that will now get as much coverage in media reporting as her other views, right? ... Right?

repost if you’ve had your coffee now and you

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...

Now that the "overdiagnosis" framing seems to have been adopted wholesale by government (or at least large swathes of the media), I should probably plug The Video again youtu.be/JDxVGtarAME?...

Those who meet me soon realise that I am several anxiety disorders in a trenchcoat. I first sought help for this in 2015. I've done several rounds of NHS talking therapy, and have had medication since 2019. I had no formal diagnosis until 2021. I only found out about *that* two years later.

In fact, even if this *does* turn out to be perfectly benign (and I'm not saying it will), it's too late now. Launching with press briefings on "overdiagnosis"/welfare, especially before official info, obviously means the communities involved will distrust it. Really ending the culture wars there 🙃

Once again, PIP is not a diagnosis-based benefit. To get it you need to score enough points in a functional test. Diagnoses are a red herring.

So this doesn't come off as too doomy - the fact that there's now a prominent anti-neurodiversity backlash is, to me, a sign of how far we've come. Schools & society in general have advanced so far over my lifetime. We have much to do, but years ago there was almost no recognition.

ADHD & autism are five-to-ten times more prevalent in prisons vs the general population. Refusing to recognise, support & truly value neurodivergent people isn't just inhumane - it's fiscally ruinous. Kids struggle to focus, feel overwhelmed, we call them bad then lock them up. & it costs loads!

Will post proper thoughts on the diagnosis review later on when my brain is less fried, but: oh ffs that press framing

I don't know what I expected

Just watched Delta and the Bannermen for the first time, fantastic A+ 10/10 no notes

Whamageddon only really works if a big part of you *wants* to get caught, like a summer water fight

buying christmas presents for my girlfriend is so hard

Hi! I'm someone who has the audacity to be brown and autistic on the Internet, and I wrote this piece because I'm also too audacious to care about whether I make certain people uncomfortable. It's not about you! But if you THINK it's about you, then it most definitely is. Hope this helps!

While it hasn't happened to me yet, "having my diagnosis questioned by a doctor I've never met who half-remembers reading some horrible headline somewhere" has sat firmly on the already long list of worries I have about medical appointments for a while. We're going backwards.

I wrote about systemic medical bias, chocolate medals and Eamonn Holmes

If you are eligible for the mobility component of PIP, you can spend *your own money* topping that up to have a great accessible car. Critics should ask: Why are you against this? What it is about disabled people that makes you believe it’s wrong to have nice things they paid for themselves?

🚨 ♾ Our report out yesterday calls on HM Government to deliver an effective new autism strategy. Open this link committees.parliament.uk/committee/77... to view the following: - Full report - Easy Read report - Report summary with conclusions and recommendations - Shorthand

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]

I posted too close to the sun

I was not a good fit for the corporate law route they push on everyone with my degree, I re-evaluated what it means to be autistic as I learned more about the neurodiversity movement and disability politics, and I became incapable of ever shutting up about it

thinking about the "podcast" I was really excited to listen to weeks ago but still haven't yet because it's not really a podcast at all, it's just a YouTube video, there's no actual podcast RSS feed to queue in the podcasting app I use and so I keep forgetting about it

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this is going to be my earworm for the next thousand years, apologies in advance youtu.be/IPoRGwAIEyo?...

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was: