Neurotypicals: I unwind by doing nothing.
ADHDers: Doing nothing is when the volume goes up. My brain saves the loudest thoughts for the exact moment I try to rest.
The neurodivergent paradox: won't message first, won't answer calls, avoids eye contact... but if you speak to them? Suddenly the funniest, most passionate person in the room. We're just waiting for a safe space to switch on.
Ah yes, the autistic experience of being more mature than your peers as a child/teen, and then less mature as an adult. The window of opportunity to relate is...not there
TEWV EIP, St Aidan’s House, Bishop Auckland
St Aidan’s = diabolical care: repeat admissions, distressed families, safety failures. “Support” = cuppas while pts bounce back. #TEWV under statutory public inquiry—carers’ “help” is just PR. Accountability before coffee. #TEWVInquiry
Notes from a mental health patient #6.
‘No decision about us without us’ is something services love to throw around when it suits them…until it doesn’t. Until your voice suddenly doesn’t matter. Until suddenly the power imbalance comes into play.
I have no words to describe the situation and pain I’ve been left sitting with this week - maybe I will one-day. For now, I just want to say this.
NHS SPENT £680,000 TO SILENCE A DOCTOR WHO WAS TRYING TO SAVE YOUR LIFE
Dr Jasna Macanovic was a kidney specialist with 20 years of excellent NHS service at Portsmouth Hospitals (@PHU_NHS). She watched patients suffer complications from a dialysis needle technique her colleagues had introduced. Bleeding. Clotting. Deaths.
She raised it internally. Nothing moved. So she went to the @CareQualityComm. Then the GMC. That is literally what doctors are legally and professionally required to do.
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust responded by sacking her for serious misconduct. The misconduct, in case you missed it, was reporting unsafe care to the regulator.
They called her aggressive. Intimidating. Unmanageable. The Employment Tribunal called it a predetermined unfair dismissal. Zero contributory fault on her part. She won at every single stage over five years.
The Trust legal bill to fight her: £680,000. Your money. NHS money. The compensation she was awarded: £219,000. The people who ran the disciplinary campaign against her, which the tribunal literally described as a counter-offensive, were later promoted.
CEO Penny Emerit was later handed an even bigger role running two NHS trusts simultaneously. The medical director who originally launched the disciplinary action against Dr Macanovic, Simon Holmes, moved to a board role at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The CQC investigated him and found no breach. The same CQC that had texted Dr Macanovic in 2016 to personally promise she was protected and could not lose her job.
She lost her job.
Nobody struck off. Nobody sacked. The Freedom to Speak Up policy sitting somewhere in a shared drive, largely decorative.
Sources: ET Case 1400232/2018 / @Telegraph / @alexander_minh
Quotes From British Military Annual Personnel Reports.
1. His men would follow him anywhere, but only out of curiosity.
2. I would not breed from this Officer.
3. This man is depriving a village somewhere of its idiot.
4. This officer can be likened to a small puppy - he runs around excitedly, leaving little messes for other people to clean up.
5. This Officer is really not so much of a has-been, more of a definitely won't-be.
6. When she opens her mouth, it seems only to change whichever foot was previously in there.
7. Couldn't organise 50% leave in a 2 man submarine.
8. He has carried out each and every one of his duties to his entire satisfaction.
9. He would be out of his depth in a car park puddle.
10. Technically sound, but socially impossible.
11. The occasional flashes of adequacy are marred by an attitude of apathy and indifference.
12. When he joined my ship, this Officer was something of a granny; since then he has aged considerably.
13. This Medical Officer has used my ship to carry his genitals from port to port, and my officers to carry him from bar to bar.
14. This Officer reminds me very much of a gyroscope, always spinning around at a frantic pace, but not really going anywhere.
15. Since my last report he has reached rock bottom, and has started to dig.
16. She sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them.
17. He has the wisdom of youth, and the energy of old age.
18. This Officer should go far, and the sooner he starts, the better.
19. In my opinion this pilot should not be authorised to fly below 250 feet.
20. The only ship I would recommend for this man is citizenship.
21. Couldn't organise a woodpecker's picnic in Sherwood Forest.
22. Works well when under constant supervision and cornered like a rat in a trap.
23. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
24. Gates are down, the lights are flashing, but the train isn't coming.
25. Has two brains; one is lost and the other is out looking for it.
26. If he were any more stupid, he'd have to be watered twice a week.
27. Got into the gene pool while the lifeguard wasn't watching.
28. If you stand close enough to him, you can hear the ocean.
29. It's hard to believe that he beat 1,000,000 other sperm.
30. A room temperature IQ.
31. Got a full 6-pack, but lacks the plastic thingy to hold it all together.
32. A gross ignoramus, 143 times worse than an ordinary ignoramus.
33. He has a photographic memory but has the lens cover glued on.
34. He has been working with glue too long.
35. When his IQ reaches 50, he should sell.
36. This man hasn't got enough grey matter to sole the flip-flop of a one legged budgie.
37. If two people are talking, and one looks bored, he's the other one.
38. One-celled organisms would out score him in an IQ test.
39. He donated his body to science before he was done using it.
40. Fell out of the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down.
41. He's so dense, light bends around him.
42. If brains were taxed, he'd get a rebate.
43. Some drink from the fountain of knowledge; he only gargled.
44. Takes him 1.1/2 hours to watch 60 minutes.
45. Wheel is turning, but the hamster is long gone.
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@NoNonsenseND Autism was once thought of as only occurring in boys and they would grow out of it.
If you weren't low ability at primary school, you weren't even considered.
Aspergers was separate
Growth of diagnoses is due to recognition the criteria was too narrow