Becca Garside 🌻🧠🌻

Neurodivergent inclusionist, mother, teacher, senior leader, founder. Special interest in neurodiversity and equity.

[Becca Garside 🌻🧠🌻 @becca_garside]

@teamsquarepeg And the "watching a car crash" analogy is exactly how I describe it...horrific.

[Becca Garside 🌻🧠🌻 @becca_garside]

@teamsquarepeg It doesn't actually matter if you *are* qualified, they still roll your eyes at you (qualified SEND specialist teacher, SENCO and SLT of a SEMH school when they were telling me my kid was "fine"...

[Becca Garside 🌻🧠🌻 @becca_garside]

@Stuart_48UK @biddy_summers @UpsalaGirl ...and then are lynched by the general public whenever they point out it's not a cushy job!

[Becca Garside 🌻🧠🌻 @becca_garside]

@Stuart_48UK @biddy_summers @UpsalaGirl Exactly this - and they don't get paid for it either!

[Becca Garside 🌻🧠🌻 @becca_garside]

My own son started trying to jump from a moving car aged just 8yo because he'd rather that than arrive at the school gates! He, like Sarah's daughter, developed suicidal ideation. Attendance "crackdowns" are NOT the answer. Stop breaking our kids.

[Dr Jo Billington @MsJoBillington]

“Sarah’s daughter used to say she’d rather be dead, so she didn’t have to go to school”

Many autistic children have to make a choice b/w being able to function or going to school.

These kids are the canaries in the mine. DfE, OFSTED - please act now.

https://t.co/rKOV2GV7j7

[Becca Garside 🌻🧠🌻 @becca_garside]

@LR_SENDHub Perhaps better #funding for our #schools who currently can't meet the needs of a rapidly increasing group of children? #CAMHS interventions which understand the specific challenges of #neurodivergent children?

[Becca Garside 🌻🧠🌻 @becca_garside]

@LR_SENDHub That's great news. Will there be a move to address the currently horrific provision (or blatant lack thereof) for our most vulnerable children who currently can't attend school at all? #EOTAS #EBSA #SEND #INCLUSION

[Becca Garside 🌻🧠🌻 @becca_garside]

@EssexSmoggy As an ADHDer, my knowledge retrieval has always been constantly searching for information in a filing cabinet with no labels. My whole life has been an inability to recall names, times, dates...etc. Peri-menopause on top is 🤯. Double-gaslighting myself these days.

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

WARNING. THIS IS A SCAM BY CRIMINALS TRYING TO STEAL MONEY. PLS SHARE.

This is frightening, it's the first deep fake video scam I've seen with me in it. Govt & regulators must step up to stop big tech publishing such dangerous fakes. People'll lose money and it'll ruin lives.

[Becca Garside 🌻🧠🌻 @becca_garside]

@GirlsandGoblins @naomicfisher Yes - emotional regulation is key. At what point do we support the development of that?..🤔

[Becca Garside 🌻🧠🌻 @becca_garside]

This is such a beautiful thing. I'm just thinking about how many children with tourettes I've spoken to who are STILL made to feel awful for their tics. Will they need to become famous singers to be accepted or can we just make them welcome in class now?

https://t.co/m05sdQAdM5

[Dan Walker @mrdanwalker]

Special moment at #Glastonbury as the crowd help Lewis Capaldi ❤

[Becca Garside 🌻🧠🌻 @becca_garside]

@tweetsomemoore Well deserved! 👏 congratulations.

[Square Peg @teamsquarepeg]

Without transparency, collaboration, co-production, joint working, this whole thing is going to be another stitch up with galling PR spin to put a bow on the gilded pile of 💩 disabled and underserved vulnerable kids & their families will be left with.
https://t.co/EJeQHKPsn0

[Becca Garside 🌻🧠🌻 @becca_garside]

@tweetsomemoore Magical! Congratulations to you all.

[Becca Garside 🌻🧠🌻 @becca_garside]

@PaulWhiteleyPhD It's highly heritable - 83% to 90% based on twin studies https://t.co/STUK69DJRV
Which means it's biologically beneficial https://t.co/Lv6WsiA3NG so is it time to stop gaslighting and start celebrating ND yet? 🤔

[Becca Garside 🌻🧠🌻 @becca_garside]

@neuroteachers @pbdiversity I love that slide! 👏

[Becca Garside 🌻🧠🌻 @becca_garside]

@adamfare1996 🤣🙌 YES! This is so true!

[Becca Garside 🌻🧠🌻 @becca_garside]

@adhdadult_james @TheADHDadults How on Earth can they cancel shared care and medication programs based on some questionable journalism? Surely that's not medical science and therefore incredibly questionable medical care by GPs?! 😧

[Becca Garside 🌻🧠🌻 @becca_garside]

@ASMU_Sendplight I feel this with you mama. My son too...and my daughter. Such animated and dynamic little beings. They're both home educated now but the damage is still very visible. My son's anxiety is crippling. I savour "the before" as you do.

[Becca Garside 🌻🧠🌻 @becca_garside]

@neuroteachers "Traditionalist methods" read: "Militant Methods".

Suck the joy out of every single soul for LIFE...let alone teaching and learning.