Under the NDIS people with MND are able to access around $300k a year for their complex needs. It’s often not enough. But if you’re diagnosed with MND over 65, the most you can get in an aged care package is $78k . It's utterly absurd. @mndaustralia@MNDQueensland
Mental health tip Get on Twitter immediately after Opening Your Eyes in the morning and Don’t get out of bed until you have Scrolled Aimlessly for at least 2 Hours
AUKUS has always been about using Australia as a US forward operating base for their war with China and never about defence.
No country who hosts the American military is safe from the war they inevitably bring.
I was undiagnosed/unmedicated for ADHD but was still the most punctual person I knew growing up. got made fun of for not being “latin” enough to be late everywhere.
the anxiety I developed was so draining that now I mostly don’t schedule things, which has created a new problem
you don’t realize how much your environment affects your mental state until you finally spend time somewhere that feels calm and your body stops feeling tense for once
adhd ruins my life everyday it pisses me off when people talk about it like some quirky personality trait. do you understand how horrific it is to know you have to get something done and your brain is on red alert screaming at you to do it but you just physically cant
I feel a cold fury whenever I open a pdf of some paper to read and Adobe is like "Hm, this looks long. Would you like me to just summarize it for you?" No, fuck you, Adobe. The paper is long because it contains a lot of details that matter. Why wouldn't I want to read them?
In every single country that passed age verification laws:
1) databases got leaked
2) innocent websites got censored
3) governments became more censorship heavy
4) protests became more criminalized
5) information got harder to find
girls, we need to frantically and obsessively start reading books and finish them in less than 24 hours again.... remember how happy we were back then??
mom asked me if I can take her to hobby lobby cause she needs something for work by tomorrow and immediately I asked her why she waited til the last night to tell me
Follow if you’re also the gifted and talented, “got good grades but talked a lot” kid who is menopausal and now hanging by a thread and suddenly have an ADHD diagnosis. 👋🙄
This article by @abcnews should be retracted in full, and an apology should be issued.
8 million Australians are not receiving 'income support'. The study relied on here openly counts accessing sick leave entitlements as a form of 'income support'.
https://t.co/QfUMq1HRe7
I thought my midlife crisis would involve a glamorous makeover and much younger boyfriend, but instead it’s been Googling symptoms, various pairs of lounge pants worn on a rotating basis and outrage over the cost of an avocado.