ADHDoptimist

Late diagnosed ADHD, Marketing Agency Owner, sharing a pathway to ADHD mitigation also useful for parents and friends who want to help.

[Benonwine @benonwine]

Katherine Birbalsingh says it straight: schools teach slavery, but they don’t hear that Britain banned it, enforced it at sea, and paid a fortune to end it.

Katherine Birbalsingh is right. That gap isn’t education it’s a political lesson.

The Arab slave trade barely gets a look in.

That’s not an accident. It’s a story built around guilt, not history.

She’s talking common sense and the truth.

Every school needs a teacher like this. This woke version of the past is damaging children and every classroom needs this kind of honesty and every classroom needs a teacher like Katherine.

[Ben Graham @BenGrahamUK]

Well done to Signal for speaking up.

It's obvious that this isn't really about keeping children safe, it's about giving the state greater surveillance powers over ordinary citizens.

The same politicians claiming the moral high ground on child protection are the ones who voted against a national rape gang inquiry.

Forgive me if I don't take their lectures on safeguarding seriously.

[Maxi @AllForProgress_]

You might have heard of Maggie Oliver.

She's a former Greater Manchester detective who, in 2012, was ordered to abandon her investigation into the systematic rape of children in Rochdale, and decided she would rather resign her warrant card rather than do so.

Maggie, as that would imply, is one of the good ones. I constantly ask how our police can consider themselves worthy of the badge if they are not willing to return the badge rather than commit injustice in its name. Maggie did just that; she was asked to cover for criminals, so she told the shirts to stuff themselves and handed back her commission.

She won a small but consequential victory in the High Court on Friday. Mr Justice Kimblin granted her foundation a full judicial review of whether the British state has actually done anything about the recommendations it accepted, in 2022, at the end of a seven-year inquiry into the institutional cover-up of decades of child sexual abuse.

Maggie Oliver is one woman. She has no political party behind her and no standing in Whitehall. She has no peerage, no chambers, no billionaire foundation footing her bills.

She was ordered, by senior officers, to drop her investigation into a network of men who were raping children in industrial quantities in her city, because of the demographics to which those men belong made the whole thing a bit awkward.

Fourteen years on, she has done what nobody else in this country has been able to. She has hauled the British state into open court to answer for the choice it made, over four years and under two governments, to hold a seven-year, £200 million inquiry into the institutional cover-up of child abuse and implement, deliberately, none of that inquiry's recommendations.

The Home Office accepted those recommendations in 2022. So did the Department for Education, the police inspectorates and the Crown Prosecution Service. And then nothing happened. The recommendations sat. The departments restructured. Ministers rotated.

The girls and women who had given evidence aged. More such operations continued around the country, while the men who had run the previous set of them either walked free, left the country, or drew their own pensions.

The state, in the manner of every institution Tony Blair ever built, had decided that the writing of the report was the action, and the doing of the report could be handed off to history.

That is what Maggie Oliver has now forced into court. And the political class knows what that means. The Home Secretary has not commented. The Prime Minister has not commented. The candidates jockeying through the post-Starmer Labour succession have, at the time of writing, failed even to speak her name, as though they know that, if they do, lightning will flash in the sky and they'll be turned into a pillar of Tesco's-own-brand dishwasher salt.

They are silent because they recognise, accurately, that the answers a judicial review will produce - to the question of why their inquiry's findings were treated as ornamental - will, should, must end the careers of every official who was supposed to act on them and did not. That councillors and councils, mayors, indeed entire political parties, will be caught under ultraviolet light and shown for their guilt.

It's time a government did what the British state has spent twenty years declining to do. Take on institutional failure.

Name the institutions that failed, in public, on the record. Name the officers and officials who covered it up, and the officers and officials who pressed for the cover-up too. Prosecute them under the standards that any other employee of a public organisation defrauding the public would expect to face.

The recommendations the inquiry produced must be implemented in full, alongside whatever further measures a second look at the evidence then demands.

There will not be another inquiry into the inquiries. There will be the verdicts.

Maggie Oliver is one of the bravest people in Britain. She has earned, by her own resignation and by fourteen years and a foundation and a court case carried on her back, the right to expect from a future British government the simple thing that ought to have happened in 2014, in 2016, in 2018, in 2022 and in every other year of this national disgrace.

She has not yet been given it; we have not yet been given it. But it will be given, and soon.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Fair expectations

[LLONER 🦅🪐 @eyojoel77]

People with ADHD have what’s called an “interest-based nervous system.” They literally can’t force themselves to care about things that bore them. It’s not a choice. It’s not willpower. Their brains physically won’t produce the neurochemicals needed to engage unless something triggers interest, urgency, novelty, or challenge.

[Fav @Favwontmiss]

I hate how ADHD has been sensationalized as the fun mental illness but having it literally feels like walking around with some very specific kind of dementia that is actively ruining your life at every step and the culprit is always you.

[ADHDoptimist @ADHDoptimist]

@heavensbvnny 1000% now if only there was a bank of executors with no good ideas…

[ADHDoptimist @ADHDoptimist]

Hilarious

[Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys]

This is insane. Teachers wearing keffiyehs and draped in Palestine flags are out on strike. The pupils tell them to get back to work

[SPEAK UK @speakukorg]

Because of the Online Safety Act, now you can’t even read some blog posts without verifying your age.

How exactly is this keeping people safe?

[InspiroQuest @InspiroQuest]

Here's how the Japanese restore inner drive in 72 hours:

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[ADHDoptimist @ADHDoptimist]

@TommiPedruzzi Guide

[ADHDoptimist @ADHDoptimist]

@heavensbvnny That might be ADD if you have severe executive dysfunction and operate best on demand.

[ADHDoptimist @ADHDoptimist]

@autisticadhdco That’s why there is ADD. Personally I believe ADD is usually worse as it’s less diagnosed, logically more likely to lead to severe executive dysfunction & the creeping consequences of that. ADHD seems more an issue when impulsivity is compounded with bad influences/circumstances.

[ADHDoptimist @ADHDoptimist]

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[Chisom- Global Careers Adviser 🌏 @FLOTUK]

With ADHD, especially if you were diagnosed later in life, you actually need to remind yourself you have a chronic, incredibly debilitating disability whenever you’re being hard on yourself. Especially if you’re not from wealth or lack support

[🤠 @heavensbvnny]

Neurotypicals: "I'm tired. I'll just go to sleep now."

ADHDers: "I am physically exhausted, but my brain is currently holding my eyes open because I haven't had enough 'Me Time' to feel satisfied with today.”

[The Bee Guy @the_beeguy]

It’s that time of year - folks asking us about #bumblebees - WHY THEY’RE SEEING THEM ON THE GROUND - so here’s a thread to explain.
Please #retweet!
Every queen that survives means a new colony that gets to exist & produce queen #bees for next year!
So important to #share!
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[ADHDoptimist @ADHDoptimist]

@aibytekat @UnrollThread

[Katyayani Shukla @aibytekat]

How to understand ADHD overwhelm in 35 seconds.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "The water usage for beef is obscene. Thousands of litres per kilogram."
Farmer: "That's rainfall."
Activist: "What?"
Farmer: "The figure includes all the rain that falls on the pasture. The cows drink from the stream. The rain falls whether there's a cow here or not."
Activist: "It's still water consumption."
Farmer: "Should I stop the rain falling on my field?"
Activist: "Grow crops instead. More efficient."
Farmer: "This is a 35-degree slope in the Welsh hills. Show me the crop."
Activist: "Technology..."
Farmer: "To make tractors climb mountains?"
Activist: "There must be a solution."
Farmer: "There is. It's called a cow."
Activist: [checks phone]