My lovely Mam died suddenly last week. She was an absolutely amazing Grandma to my Betsy. They were the best of friends 💛 A former teacher, Mam understood Betsy's Down's Syndrome and enriched her life immeasurably. Heartbroken. What a loss. #DownsSyndrome #Bereavement #Mam

So this is known among older corners of the autistic community as "exposure anxiety," a term coined by Donna Williams, iirc, and I believe it is one of the most under-researched reported experiences of autism for how much stress and inertia it causes.

The autistic realization that you can’t do anything with people around because being watched even casually feels physically unbearable.

🧠 People choose friends with a similar level of autism — study Scientists found that we connect and build friendships more easily with people who are on a similar spectrum. During conversations, their brains synchronize more strongly. This phenomenon is called double empathy.

The changes to the Motability mileage cap mean that those of us who transport our children ourselves, to specialist provisions out of area, will now likely exceed the limit. 10,000 miles per year is not compatible with disabled lives. Motability is no longer fit for purpose.

£200 a month. That’s what families could lose under new Universal Credit changes. 3M disabled people rely on the health top up. But under Labour, families are being pushed to choose between vital care and simply making ends meet. When will the government stop punishing the most vulnerable?

Urgent: Nigel Farage says he barely knows Trump. He’s heard of him but he’s never campaigned for him, or modelled himself on him. He DOESN’T want photos like those attached to be circulated at a delicate time with local elections looming. Please DO NOT circulate these.

RT @LurgeeLife: If you're too ill/disabled to work: today a 2-tier system begins for DWP support Existing LCWRA: £429.80 pcm Most new LCW…

While this week sees the some good news in terms of the end of the two-child limit it also sees some awful news for those who are too ill to work with a cut to the Limited Capability for Work and Work-Related Activity (LCWRA) of almost half from over £420 to £217.26 ⬇️

#Motability Kay Miller, 29, a teacher said that when the reduction of mileage allowance comes into effect in July she won’t be able to continue working mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-…

Looking for recommendations for children's wheelchairs? Which companies would people recommend buying one from? The only request is that it is pink 🩷 Any guidance greatly appreciated! #DisabilityTwitter #DisabledChildren #Wheelchairs

Just like other despicably bad employers, Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer are weaponising terms and conditions in a pay dispute with Doctors. The difference here however is that cutting 1,000 training posts for resident Doctors will ultimately hurt the general public most.

So in the same week the government announces that 1 in 4 GP referrals to a specialist will be blocked "to cut waiting lists"...Starmer deprives doctors of 1000 specialist training places.

BREAKING - OUTRAGE in AMERICA: White House takes down video after Trump says, 'Don't send any money for daycare. We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country, we have 50 states, we're fighting wars. We have to take care of one thing, military protection. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things." WATCH

Northumberland Green Party could really use your donations to help get a Green Councillor elected in Cramlington! If you can spare a pound please do donate below 👇 Hope not hate 💚💚💚 @TheGreenParty @ZackPolanski #GreenParty #Hope crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/0npEd…

And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media. A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children. Let’s keep this in the spotlight every day.

Bloomberg, "If you were PM today, what would you do differently to Keir Starmer?" Zack Polanski, "In short term, this is Trump and Netanyahu's war, it's unpopular and illegal and I don't want to see the UK anywhere near it" "Ordinary people are paying the price for this war as we're seeing energy prices rising" "Energy prices were already too high, we were already in a cost of living crisis, so it is unacceptable to imagine energy bills will rise even further" "We can't allow people to freeze in winter or live in damp and mouldy homes. It's the government's job to intervene" "In the longer term, making sure we don't keep facing these repeated climate shocks and energy risks" "If we decarbonise by 2050 that would cost less than one single time of these energy shocks that we keep having" "This inaction is costing us badly, in terms of our energy bills, but also in terms of the climate crisis" "We need something like a rising block tariff, so people's energy bills up until some point are free" "We need to transition to renewable energy, it's much cheaper than oil and gas"

PIP: a "system that too often ignores medical evidence...and leaves people feeling disbelieved and humiliated. If people truly understood how complex, exhausting and degrading the process is, they’d realise it’s not something you can easily game" uk.news.yahoo.com/pip-left-f…

Let’s talk about Nigel Farage in the Epstein files.