Jo Shaw died yesterday after her ex Ryan Kelly forced his way into her Bristol house & killed her.
She had made repeated domestic abuse reports to Avon & Somerset Police, yet he was still roaming free.
Women are told to report violence. Jo did.
I'm asthmatic. Would you say I was incentivized to get diagnosed?
Technically I was, my parents and doctors were worried that I was struggling to breathe so they gave me medication to help me breathe. I was incentivised to get help to breathe. 1/3
Tweet: “Despite a proven track record of aptitude in other areas, my friend’s neurological disorder means they struggle with a specific task that gets disproportionately used as a metric for ability”
Replies: “but if they can’t do that one thing then how can they do anything????”
Actually Jamie Oliver worked to tax sugar and cheap junk food options and then did nothing to actually make healthier options/alternatives affordable for poorer people. He shamed them and then left them with higher prices.
The quotes on this are wild. Assuming that child free women simply haven't been around children before? Women are actually capable of rational thought and understand that pregnancy and motherhood entail more than holding a cute baby for 5 minutes.
ADHD isn’t laziness. It’s inconsistent access to your abilities. One day you crush a 6-hour task in 30 minutes; the next you can’t answer a simple email. That whiplash isn’t a moral failing, it’s neurobiology. Celebrate the wins. Drop the shame on the rest.
@tfwrail on train from Bidston to Wrexham just now, I physically couldn’t get off the train because despite pressing the button, the door wouldn’t open. A passenger nearby said it had happened to her previously. Now stranded in N wales instead of neston - can you pay for my taxi?