I am one of many whose family members gave their lives to defend this country, and others, against the extreme right. On this Remembrance Sunday, watching with horror as so many become fooled by the same propaganda, and join in the same horrific hatemongering. Praying, as ever, for peace.

This open-access book marks the first historical overview of the autism rights branch of the neurodiversity movement, describing the activities & rationales of key leaders in their own words. Edited by @drstevenkapp.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Labour's ugly rhetoric has consequences: a sentence I frankly wish I'd never felt the need to type. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

This, by Jason Okundaye, on the bullying and the hypocrisy of the Right, is a piece I have been waiting some time to read. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... Allegedly we are one of the richest countries in the world. Can someone, anyone at all, explain this to me?

There are apparently Reform voters who think that migrants may arrive in the little town of Buxton, on a boat, up the river. The sea is about 50 miles away. The Channel is about 200 miles away. 👀 I just can't...

Autism pseudoscience grifters "claim to offer wellness, but what their products really do is drain health and well-being from the children who are targets of these 'treatments.'” @ejwillingham.bsky.social in the new TPGA newsletter. Share and subscribe—if you dare! tinyurl.com/AutismZombieQuackery

🗣️ 65% of trans adults reported verbal abuse in public spaces 👊 24% said they have suffered physical violence A new YouGov poll reveals safety crisis for trans people in the UK: https://goodlaw.social/u5y8

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Did having more ABA mean that autistic children 'behaved' better? No. "..the inclusion of cumulative hours of applied behavioral analysis ... did not yield significant changes... indicating that increased therapy hours did not predict greater improvement"

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.

Modern Slavery. Sorry, but it is. If companies make vulnerable individuals work for zero pay, and have no intention of ever paying them, that is exploitation, not 'charity'. Well done to ASDA.

www.inclusive-church.org/llf-open-let... Are you a member of the CofE? Want to support your lovely LGBTQ+ church people, after the LLF consultation disaster? Please consider reading and signing the letter, and sharing widely. @inclusivechurch.bsky.social

Waiting weeks to see a doctor when you're sick, worried, or in pain should be unheard of. The Labour government must back our emergency plan: 🥼 A recruitment and retention drive for 8000 more GPs 🏥 A dedicated fund to reopen surgeries 📱 24/7 booking via 111

So, Waitrose decided to exploit an autistic man, using him as unpaid labour for 600 hours, then 'cancelled' his contract once there was a request for him to be paid? What the...! Modern Slavery isn't just about keeping people locked in sheds & taking their passports away, employers. Think carefully.

This is what solidarity looks like. Together, we will win.

Yesterday I had the honour of being on the team for this fantastic annual event. By, with and for disabled, deaf and neurodivergent people. Every participant extending the love, courtesy, accessibility & generosity that our faith asks of each of us. Utterly wonderful. #CanTheseBonesLive

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

Kemi Badenoch, "I want to stop people with ADHD getting Motability cars." Well you don't need to, because nobody gets a Motability Car for ADHD. You need mobility issues, which some people with ADHD also have.

The EHRC removed the "interim guidance" that has been devastating the lives of trans people for months from it's website. We wonder why...👀

In an autistic child (age 5), targeting "whining" ("Emission of dissatisfied statements or sounds 2.5s or longer at speech level volume or higher") & crying ("Tears and facial contortions with or without vocal accompaniment") as "problem behavior"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... ABA in 2025

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces. This is truly terrifying.

Over 10,000 people have added their name to keep Hampstead women's pond inclusive. It only takes 1 minute. Will you join them? https://goodlawproject.org/petition/keep-hampstead-womens-pond-inclusive

TikTok is getting rid of the London staff who keep you safe from harmful, misleading and illegal content. When did they announce the job cuts? Eight days before those employees were due to vote on unionising. We’ve signed an open letter with @tuc.org.uk and @cwunews.bsky.social:

A lot of people think that fascists look like 1930s Europeans in uniform, marching - and fail to spot the realities around them. Some very useful reminders here about how extremists of all kinds use power to silence voices.

📣The ARCH seminar is back! Join us on October 22nd to hear from Nell Fahey (with introduction from Dr Gavin Stewart) about their work on the social experiences of middle-aged and older autistic adults. More info on our mailout - sign up and get tickets @ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/arch-semin...

#AutismArtOfThePossible Final conference thread - Dr Damian Milton, sociologist and social psychologist who specialises in autism research, and is an autism rights advocate. He is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Kent and chair of the Participatory Autism Research Collective (PARC)/

#AutismArtOfThePossible Next part of this fabulous conference from @at-autism.bsky.social with Alia Lewis and Ken Greaves. Alia starting by describing her specialist work at Family Law Advice for the Neurodivergent Community (FLANC). flanc.org.uk

#AutismArtOfThePossible Andrew Reece & Lucy Dunstan, next. Bios can be found at www.atautism.org/at-autism-co... Andrew begins by talking about Kasibba, and the journey to get her out of hospital. Huge fees, stress & effort against barriers, but Camden managed it. How?../

#AutismArtOfThePossible Ruth Moyse talks about her past research on autistic children and schools. Every child who wasn't able to attend school said they wished they could attend. But they can't do it. It's impossible for them. It's not school 'refusal'. They can't access the school.

Next thread on #AutismArtOfThePossible, with speaker Zahilah Filzah, who worked as a consultant paediatrician and advisor to the Court for Children in Malaysia. She is the founder of The Ark Autism Centre, which supports autistic individuals and their families from low-income communities/

Thread on the #AutismArtOfThePossible conference held 8 October 2025 in Westminster by the fabulous team at @at-autism.bsky.social @drruthmoyse.bsky.social is opening the autism conference, with Nicola Martin. Making clear this is based on a strengths-based, 'universal design' approach to change/

Today, cheering on the speakers at #AutismArtOfThePossible conference. They'll be discussing how to change people's attitudes and views... how to get people into homes, not hospitals.... how to embrace change in systems... and Damian Milton will be talking about participatory research/

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act. I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. It’s unfolding very rapidly. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-plan

So, to no surprise, 'brand new ABA' is still barely considering whether its goals are relevant to autistic people. Sigh.

Yipppeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!

The round up is out from @annmemmott.bsky.social & @ndconnection.bsky.social ndconnection.co.uk/blog/autism-...

www.jaacap.org/article/S089... Some Clinicians fret over how to spot the difference between autistic stimming (joyful, self-regulating) and the terrifying dread of OCD. Unable to envisage *asking autistic people*, they are hopeful that there will be a scientific test to tell them the answer. Sigh.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73... Over 1.6 million votes against enforced digital ID so far. You may wish to sign, or share, or both. I'm all for sensible consensual checks on basic identity of the sort we already have. Not this.

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

Polls are not election results. But this is a heck of a sobering read, isn't it. Well, perhaps not, for the extremists amongst us. Keep promoting love, peace and good problem-solving together, good people, because the hatemongers think they've won our country.

How on earth is a compulsory digital ID card going to work with my clients at the soup kitchen, many of whom have no fixed abode and can't afford a smartphone?

You know a speech on autism by an Orange Leader hasn't gone well when seemingly every charity & organisation agrees that it was a disaster. Even the 'usual suspects' are saying they are horrified their 'profound autism' child was portrayed in those ways & offered rubbish instead of new science.

Well done to whoever created this pic for the 'rapid release' autism tablets, parodying the Tylenol claims of a well known leader. I'll be topping up with an extra one, just to be sure that I've had the right daily autism dose. Needed the smile. *This is not medical advice. Always read the label.

One of the extraordinary claims from the Orange Leader about autism, Tylenol and vaccines, yesterday, was that if people do as he suggests, there was no downside. "Nothing bad can happen". Just good things would happen, apparently. Thread/

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

Trump links autism and Tylenol: is there any truth to it? share.google/bxzgi0hMPCFT... Useful debunking, from the science writers.

So, the President reckons autism is a crisis, horrible, can't be afforded, destroys families, & pregnant mums should not take Tylenol (Paracetamol) unless their life depends on it. They need to 'tough it out'. (They can't take anything else for pain or fever either). I just... What nonsense.

No doubt the US leaders will try to link e.g. paracetamol to autism. Can I recommend www.tylervigen.com/spurious-cor... for anyone who can't work out what's causing what? Hilarious site that compares things that 'seem' to cause each other. But they don't.