Autismum

[Smirkley @Smirkley]

If a gang can laugh while raping two schoolgirls and filming it, but behave like angels the moment their own freedom is on the line, I as a judge would treat that courtroom composure as aggravating. They are capable of restraint and control when it suits them but not others.

[Debi Evans @DebiEvansMatron]

Not that probably anyone is bothered BUT…. I was a Government Advisor Dept Health for 5yrs and I had a private 1/1 2hr meeting with Andy Burnham at Portcullis House.

It was a big thing to get a 2hr meeting with a then Shadow Secretary of State. I prepared for 2weeks, burned candle at both ends. Presented evidence and looked the man in the eyes.

He BROKE every promise he made me, never bothered to acknowledge our meeting and I never saw or heard from him again. It was lip service.

Think on before you vote him in 😏

[Brodie Mitchell @BrodieMitchell1]

LAST NIGHT I was assaulted walking home alone from the train station, 3 mins from Royal Holloway campus. A car flew past and launched a cup full of liquid at the back of my legs - no words, they just sped off. I called 999. Police attended. This is now part of my 3 live hate crime investigations.

My “tea towel” keffiyeh comment got me suspended and kicked out the SAME DAY.
Yet I’ve been reporting months of antisemitic & homophobic no-caller-ID harassment from pro-Palestine students (10 calls an hour) from Sep to January. The uni admitted they identified the callers… then did NOTHING.

The boyfriend (white Muslim convert) doxxed me & my Jewish friend online, called us spies against Muslims, @TRobinsonNewEra bootlickers, and said “the whole of RHUL will be on your doorstep.”

Yesterday the RHUL Wellbeing team sent me a copy-paste reply to my January report - same generic email they sent my Jewish friend. It’s May and they haven’t concluded any of the investigations. I replied: “I am not safe here. If something happens to me on campus it’s down on all of you at Royal Holloway.”

Hours later I was attacked.

RHUL Friends of Palestine labelled me on Instagram a “racist attacker” and “Islamophobic threat”, posted “he’s back on campus”, and their group chat is circulating Jewish students’ photos for harassment. Comments: “Brodie needs to get jumped” this builds on already existing messages like, “I’m gonna murder this racist prick.”

The Wellbeing team (yes the ones who made me homeless for my keffiyeh comment & suspended me) investigates EVERYTHING… then protects the terrorist cheerleaders while Jewish & British students get terrorised. Politically twisted one way. Utterly useless.

This is the escalation: online doxxing → explicit death threats → real-world assault.

If something serious happens to me, I call on EVERYONE to expose Royal Holloway, their Wellbeing team, and Surrey Police for failing to act. I warned you. I am not safe here.

#TwoTierBritain #RoyalHolloway #CampusAntisemitism #TwoTierCampus #Antisemitism #RHUL #FreeSpeech

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

Uta Frith, renowned autism researcher, gives an interview to the TES about autism – and the internet goes wild. We’re told that what she said will put back progress 40 years, that she knows nothing about autism, that she lacks critical thinking and that her words will harm autistic people to the point of suicide.

You’d guess she must have said something really awful. Perhaps something deeply offensive about autistic people which reveals her lack of compassion and understanding. Even then, it’s hard to know how one retired academic would have the power to make others commit suicide and to turn back progress to the extent that is predicted.

What she said was that she thinks the autism spectrum has expanded too far and that it isn’t helping anyone. Not those who originally received autism diagnoses, and not those who are now getting diagnoses who previously would not have done. She said that she thinks scientific progress is being held back because ‘autism’ now means something so heterogenous that we can’t identify anything that all autistic people share. Nothing biological or neurological, nothing cognitive, nothing behavioural. In her words, there are no markers.

The autism spectrum is, in fact, the widest spectrum imaginable. It goes from some of the most disabled people in our society to some of the highest achievers. And there’s no evidence that they have anything in common except their diagnosis.

Saying this sort of thing gets you into a lot of trouble online. There are accepted narratives that we are all expected to comply with, and one is the idea that the giant autism spectrum is protective, that it helps people to be included under one diagnosis. Any language which helps people differentiate is banned. Which is odd, because we don’t think that in any other area of medicine. No one says (for example), that we shouldn’t differentiate between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes because it’s protective not to be able to talk about the differences. It’s obvious that differentiating between types of diabetes will lead to better understanding and interventions.

If you don’t comply with these narratives about autism – as Uta Frith hasn’t – then you will be publicly shamed. Your expertise will be challenged, even if you have 60 years of experience. You’ll be told that you are harming people and that you are ignorant. Personal slurs are likely to be used against you.

And it’s all about social control. Shame is about social control. It’s about creating things that can be said, and things that can’t be said. Others see the shaming and keep quiet.

It’s about controlling the narrative so that real discussions can’t be had. I’ve talked to so many clinicians who raise these concerns with me and who then say that they’d never speak up, for fear of shaming and even losing their job. There are important things that are not being talked about, for fear of the repercussions.

To my mind, the interesting question is really why. Why is it treated like blasphemy to say that the vast autism spectrum may no longer be fit for purpose? Why are we not allowed to discuss the reality of clinical practice?

Why are personal attacks the go-to when scientists disrupt the prevailing narrative? And why are we all so compliant, censoring ourselves to avoid the discomfort of shame?

Listen to our podcast with Uta Frith here. https://t.co/e4UoDdKTIe

[frances Barber @francesbarber13]

He told the truth …so we must destroy him. Omg. I thought better of you.

[Peter Moskos @PeterMoskos]

It wasn't "random." It never is. The odds of randomly punching four people on the street and only hitting women is about 1 in 16.

[Norman Brennan @NormanBrennan]

BREAKING NEWS; A Go Fund Me has been set up to support my Good Friend Denise Bulger & Stuart in replacing the Two Angels either side of James Grave; Will you please support this Appeal & Share it £ >👇🙏

Fundraiser by Craig Ashman : To fix James headstone https://t.co/xIwOJLFTI4

[Israel in the UK 🇮🇱🤝🇬🇧 @IsraelinUK]

In response to the hateful boycott campaign in Brighton, Sussex Jewish Representative Council has declared that this Sunday is Israel Shopping Sunday!

Get out and buy Israeli products at your local shops and supermarkets, especially if you’ve never had the joy of tasting Israeli food before 🇮🇱 🥙 😋

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

In the early days of the Nazi Party in Germany one of their first acts was to identify Jewish shops and businesses and then mark them to "help "Germans to not shop there. The next step was the marking of Jews themselves.

We are at step one here.

[NotActuallyDave @Defo_not_Dave]

Still, thank god that female GP who needed to pick her kids up was punished

[Sonya Douglas @SonyaDouglas]

Here’s an idea:

Stop jailing men for fraud/financial crime

Give them community service/compensation orders/rehab/fines

Start jailing every man guilty of SA, CSA, possession of CSA images, and other sex crimes

Remove them from society

Value women and children above assets

[Autismum @Autismum1]

@DrPlantel @Martina If the gynaecologist isn’t also a paedophile I will be very surprised.

[Colin Sutton 🇬🇧🩵 @colinsutton]

@PatrickChristys Greens are not cuddly, tree-hugging conservationists any longer.
They are extremely dangerous, Britain-hating, terrorist-loving communists.

[Inspector Gadget @InspGadgetBlogs]

Every police officer, police staff, family or friends of police officers should remember this ⬇️ at every local & national election. #BlueLivesMatter

[Alexandra @Alexandr4Denman]

Police hunt Brighton beach sex attacker
A man found guilty of attempted rape and sexual assault over an incident on Brighton beach has vanished after failing to attend court. A warrant has now been issued.
MAKE HIS FACE FAMOUS LETS FIND HIM SHARE AND SHARE PEOPLE!!

[Laila Mickelwait @LailaMickelwait]

This kind of leniency encourages child abuse. The message to current and potential perpetrators is — “don’t worry, go right ahead, because you won’t face any consequences.”

We need justice systems that actually serve justice.

[MAZZA @_M_A_Z_Z_A]

They took on the wrong mother. They thought they could use the full force of the system to silence her. #NoahDonohoe

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Internet - make him famous

Urgent hunt launched as woman ‘sexually assaulted multiple times’ on busy train https://t.co/Zie4yT7i8l

[Barbara Rich @BarbaraRich_law]

@HayteratLords There were MPs in the House of Commons who voted for this Bill on its Third Reading on the express basis that it would receive proper scrutiny in the House of Lords. Yet now that it is doing so, its promoters complain that this is improper. Parliament cannot have it both ways

[Elie Omidvari @EliOmidvari]

🔴 URGENT
Iranian cancer surgeon Dr. Alireza Golchini reportedly faces execution for treating injured protesters. A respected oncology specialist, he was violently arrested at home and seriously injured—punished for medical ethics.
Please share!
#AlirezaGolchini
#IranMassacre