University of Hertfordshire
Living in Bedfordshire surrounded by boys and dogs
Working for Corndel as a Professional Development Expert
#adhd (and proud 😉)
The Glastonbury crowd filling in for Lewis Capaldi when he needed help was such a beautiful moment. Anyone saying “it was heartbreaking” or “he shouldn’t have gone on” is seriously missing the point. Disability is not a bad thing to be hidden. It exists alongside success and joy.
If children only sharpen their brains at school, there’s no guarantee they won’t go on to make trouble. To balance their keen brains, they need a warm heart. The more compassionate they learn to be, the more useful members of society they’re likely to become.
Justifying your choices (over-explaining) before you’re even questioned about them shows your nervous system is in a stress state. Be aware of this pattern. When you feel that impulse to explain, don’t. Notice how differently people respond to you when you practice being assertive. You’re no longer that child who will be punished— you’re an adult capable of making decisions in your own best interest. Own that.
Been thinking about this story all day https://t.co/1LTI6tMU2d man undiagnosed with autism spends a lifetime waving at trucks, gaining purpose, identity & belonging & giving joy. Mum dies, he's diagnosed, moves into supported living & a risk assessment says he can't do it now?
The Princess of Wales looks to be launching a sincere & thoughtful campaign, but it's kind of wild that Sure Start was an evidence-based solution to the problems she's raising, was evaluated and found to be wonderfully successful, and we're sort of pretending it wasn't cut.
BREAKING. David Carrick, a Metropolitan police officer has admitted at least 80 sex attacks, including 47 rapes, against a dozen women. It means that one of the country's worst sex offenders has been working at the force for 20 years
It's difficult to take any of the right wing journos seriously as they scream that Meghan Markle is ruining the royal family, when one member of the royal family is quite literally, a nonce.