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How stigma can affect the physical health of a person with #ASD and/or #SMI. Aggressively dismiss their pain as 'psychological'.
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Autistic people can fixate on intelligence — not from vanity, but because measurable cognition offers clarity in a world that feels unpredictable. For many, it becomes a way to understand themselves after years of being misunderstood. of unsupported autism.
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The real damage comes from getting **no help**: decades of being told it’s laziness or lack of effort, instead of neurology. People internalise shame for problems that were never their fault. They were expected to function without the tools their brain requires.
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The truth is simple: **Disorganisation isn’t identity. It’s the predictable outcome of unsupported autism.**
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No one has ever cared enough to say ‘Sorry, we let you down’. Re the non recognition of things that served as a huge barrier to achieving via further education.
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My basic,non intellectual,interpretation-critical psychiatry best as a means of improving mainstream psychiatry,not destroying it? The need for it to adopt fresh thinking.
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Tim Gatty retweeted
We have to counter the rise of the far right (Farage, Reform, Restore, "Tommy" and their Epstein class billionaire backers) because even one term of them would do even worse damage to working class & disabled people.
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