Tina 🇬🇧🇯🇲

I tweet about my experience of being late diagnosed as autistic with ADHD and how it impacts my daily life. I like movies and my cats. I write, too.

[Tina 🇬🇧🇯🇲 @BLACKWithADHDUK]

Autistic people deserve to be treated with respect. Our productivity is not a measure of our value. Being autistic does not negate our gifts, talents, experience or skills. We are deserving and should not be treated like liabilities or burdens.

[Tina 🇬🇧🇯🇲 @BLACKWithADHDUK]

If you're autistic with ADHD, what's your experience with antidepressants (SSRIs)?
Do you take ADHD medication and SSRIs? Did you find you didn't need SSRIs once starting your ADHD meds?
Do you take both and feel you need to take both? #autism #ADHD
#cADHD #stimulants #ssris

[Rach Idowu @AdultingADHD @AdultingADHD]

This is how I’ve been curing my RSD

[Rach Idowu @AdultingADHD @AdultingADHD]

Spreading some Neurodivergent acceptance at UK Parliament, really excited to work with the team on improving accessibility and Neuroinclusion for the public

[Libriscent @libriscent]

the autistic experience of saying “I could be wrong, so don’t quote me” right before giving an airtight, thesis-level, explanation that was researched for weeks out of sheer curiosity.

[Tina 🇬🇧🇯🇲 @BLACKWithADHDUK]

But I'm trying to remain hopeful that with support, reasonable adjustments and understanding I can maintain my mental health and make a positive difference for others.

[Tina 🇬🇧🇯🇲 @BLACKWithADHDUK]

It's Autism Awareness Day. It's been two years since my diagnosis and years of burnout but now I'm in recovery. Every day is hard as I try to navigate the workplace again as an autistic person. Self advocacy is so important as is honouring my needs. It's been genuinely terrifying

[Tina 🇬🇧🇯🇲 @BLACKWithADHDUK]

Epistemic Injustice: The Great Gaslighting of Autistic Lives

[Tina 🇬🇧🇯🇲 @BLACKWithADHDUK]

https://t.co/9eC2SgTA9o

[Tina 🇬🇧🇯🇲 @BLACKWithADHDUK]

https://t.co/9eC2SgTA9o

[Tina 🇬🇧🇯🇲 @BLACKWithADHDUK]

@JulianeWriter I'm sorry your mother said this to you. Internalised misogyny is jarring as hell.

[Tina 🇬🇧🇯🇲 @BLACKWithADHDUK]

I'm genuinely very upset to read Uta Frith's claims about late diagnosed autistic women. It's well documented why women and girls are under diagnosed. As a Black late diagnosed autistic woman I am deeply troubled by Frith's claims (1/2)

[Avery Edison @aedison]

a friend of mine was the absolute top-performing employee at his job, blew everyone else away, and he was let go because he just *could not* get up in time to be in at 9am. all the early bedtimes, alarm clocks, phone calls and door knocks in the world couldn’t beat his ADHD

[Tina 🇬🇧🇯🇲 @BLACKWithADHDUK]

Of "social anxiety" + "hyper sensitivity" being a better fit. The comments that the spectrum has now "lost all meaning." I am horrified because so much progress has been made in recognising autism in women + girls and here is someone undoing it + invalidating us in the process.

[Tina 🇬🇧🇯🇲 @BLACKWithADHDUK]

I'm still here guys

[ᴘᴏᴛᴀᴛᴜᴍ @pot8um]

i want to live in a world where women and their lived experiences are fucking believed by default

[Melissa Sigodo @melissasigodo]

This week is sexual abuse and violence awareness week and everything we’re seeing shows how easy it is to dismiss the voices of survivors.

[Tina 🇬🇧🇯🇲 @BLACKWithADHDUK]

Hot baths and aromatherapy are still greatly appreciated.

[Tina 🇬🇧🇯🇲 @BLACKWithADHDUK]

Yesterday was such a difficult day re: emotional regulation. Morning exercise and stimulants barely touched the meltdown that eventually grabbed my ass by the early afternoon. Sometimes there's nothing you can do to stop it.