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badautistic.bsky.social
Hoping, somehow. Socialist. Disabled: Autistic. Cognitive Difficulties. Mad. Endometriosis. Dysautonomia.
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Why is the frame always "x million people use anti-depressants, we need to lower pharmaceutical use" and much more rarely "x million are struggling and unhappy, how can we help? (This also applies to ADHD and its meds)

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Dismissing depression is very dangerous and can cost lives, health professionals have form for it, as do the media political class. The austerity caused gaslighting from the PM downwards is causing immense and risky distress. So seriously, FUCK THEM. FUUUUUUUUUCK Them.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

We need to stop blaming people for their disabilities. Health is not a permanent state. Most people will experience disability at some point in their lives. We’re not less than. We didn’t do anything wrong. We deserve equitable, dignified and adequate support.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Basic, unsexy sh*t that’s been lost but would make a massive difference for us as patients: - Day centres - Volunteer work without DWP pressure - Community rehabilitation teams - Having the same careco for more than a year - good supported accommodation

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

The research shows that up to 48, 000 disabled people "managed" out of work in UK every year. We need more not less funding of Access to Work and non means tested legal aid to enforce duty of employers to do reasonable adjustments to keep people in work www.disabilityatwork.co.uk/wp-content/u...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The disabled-led Commission on Social Security is working on a replacement for the broken #PIP system, which we know causes harm, distress and provides inadequate support. Please click here to take part in a focus group: https://buff.ly/3X3qq7l Please sign up if you can.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I like opera a bit (sorry). Probably because of doing a lot of music at school, many years ago. I currently have "L’amour est un oiseau rebelle" as my earworm. youtu.be/K7BE7trV_oQ?...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

The autistic urge to apologise for something that totally isn't your fault or even under your control and would generally be considered a normal human failing

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

Yep! Also lots of rolls of tape. Sellotape, parcel tape, electrical tape, duct tape, hazard tape, masking tape.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

@autscape.org Hi, really sorry to trouble you. I'm looking forward to Autscape Online, but I wanted to ask about the presentation "Sparklies in the Dark" at 21:00 on Friday 7 February. Please could you let me know what this title means/what the presentation will be about? Thanks.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

A2: As both an abuse survivor and someone who has been discriminated against, I know all too well how details can be exploited by others to cause harm and obstruction. I feel that there are insufficient protections in place to keep one's data private.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

A1: I once contacted Social Services for help. It turned out they had access to information about my tenancy, my diagnoses and which medical teams I was under. I had no idea and had never authorised this. They used the information to judge me, be unpleasant, and refuse to help me. #AutChat

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Q1: Have you ever experienced a violation of privacy, either about your neurodivergence or because someone thought your neurodivergence made it ok? Have you seen someone else’s be violated? #AutChat

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

@mindcharity.bsky.social Do you have no comment at all on the media & minister onslaught re welfare reform targeting MH claimants? Or are you involved in IPS contracts? If you are will that be for the NHS or DWP, voluntary or mandatory, and are you aware of IPS prev lacklustre results?

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Being autistic is knowing that your pain and distress are often seen as less important than other people’s feelings. We’re expected to tolerate social overwhelm, confusion, sensory overload and more - and hide our pain/distress in case others may be offended by it.

submitted 24 days ago • 16 comments

Just a reminder that you’re one accident or illness away from becoming disabled. No one is immune to disability. We’re all vulnerable.

submitted 24 days ago • 27 comments

Autistic people can be excluded from many many places and abandoned by so many people and then be criticised for spending so much time alone and doing things (by) themselves. I don't know why this is. It’s giving “I don’t want to help you, and I don’t want you to help yourself either” energy.

submitted 25 days ago • 25 comments

Speaking as someone facing an ESA review soon, and awaiting a PIP decision, I want people to understand just how terrifying it is to have multiple permanent disabilities requiring significant support, yet never to know if your income will remain. It does untold damage to our mental health.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments