Twm Ford ( ; Autistic, ADHD, Depressed)

(He/Him) autistic, adhd, depressed. Small business owner. Welsh

[Twm Ford ( ; Autistic, ADHD, Depressed) @fordlltwm]

please do.
Easiest way is probably https://t.co/J3gsuNNwhW for PayPal

I've got Cashapp as well £crackedspanner

TL:DR Please help support an #ActuallyAutistic person make their own way in the world.

[Twm Ford ( ; Autistic, ADHD, Depressed) @fordlltwm]

@vaqueromoder @RowlyPaul In the UK I love the "Damage Unrecorded" ones. Mostly luxury cars, but some beaters as well, that have been wrapped round a lamp post or otherwise destroyed. "Could rebuild 5k". I assume those are for ringing stolen cars but they're advertised openly.

[Twm Ford ( ; Autistic, ADHD, Depressed) @fordlltwm]

To me the All Stops to Crewe service from Euston isn't an Express, having "Intercity" and "Express" as your only brand marks risks confusing those who want to got a couple of stops. You wouldn't usually call an all stopper an express of any kind.

[Lewis Bergen ( == Rail == ) @railLKB]

SERVICE DELIVERY BRANDING STRATEGY

While partly out of scope - MBbD strongly advocates for a clear Service Delivery Strategy of three tiers;

→ InterCity
→ Express (for regional services, and point-to-point)
→ Local services (delivered by Devolved Transport Authorities.)

[Twm Ford ( ; Autistic, ADHD, Depressed) @fordlltwm]

@RowlyPaul If some unsuspecting member of the public bought one and decided to be awkward they'd discover "Trade Sale" doesn't cover you if you're advertising publicly 😂

[Twm Ford ( ; Autistic, ADHD, Depressed) @fordlltwm]

@RowlyPaul I'm looking at buying a car at the moment, and all the wannabe dealers trying to offload scrap is mind boggling. "Trade Sale - rattling flywheel" "Blown engine but otherwise really tidy" "Trade sale - No Mot but will pass no bother". Trying to find honest private sales is tricky.

[Steward @UKSteward]

@DavidLammy Limited rights? They chose to live together without marrying under the state.

Make a will, get married, or accept your choices.

Stop expanding government interference into private relationships. Fix borders, energy bills and taxes instead.

[Twm Ford ( ; Autistic, ADHD, Depressed) @fordlltwm]

@EngFocus @RainbowChazer The active travel argument was by making roads better it locked in car usage on the A421 / A428 corridor. I suspect they cross over with Nimbys a lot, so their probably also against EWR on principal.

[Twm Ford ( ; Autistic, ADHD, Depressed) @fordlltwm]

@EngFocus @RainbowChazer There was quite a lot of anger at the time, from active travel groups especially.
Also a fair bit of "why didn't they do it right 20 years ago" which was the last time the junction was reworked apparently.

[Sultan Scarlet @UpsetWordPerson]

At what point is it no longer The Narcissist's Prayer but the Mental Health Industry's Prayer?
Nothing bad will happen
And if it did, it wasn't that bad
And if it was, you made it happen really
And if you didn't, idk man reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.

[˙⋆✮Lotte ੈ✩‧₊˚ @ayalanyan]

@cybercom_woke I think I'm allowed to voice my annoyance at being forced to go through pointless cbt for years because that's the only type of therapy doctors and psychologists want to focus on

[˙⋆✮Lotte ੈ✩‧₊˚ @ayalanyan]

CBT seems like the dumbest most useless therapy technique ever invented until you meet the kind of person CBT was designed for

[Twm Ford ( ; Autistic, ADHD, Depressed) @fordlltwm]

@RachelZader I don't see how CBT would be helpful to anyone the way it was thrown at me. A NHS provided PowerPoint website by a grifting company called Silvercloud. A multi choice question every 4 pages of pumpkins with different faces carved into them.

[Twm Ford ( ; Autistic, ADHD, Depressed) @fordlltwm]

Ah the beauty of the Kirby covers. The generic new covers or hideous collectors edition covers just don't hit the same.

[Discworld @Discworld_com]

Small Gods was published on this day, 1992. The 13th Discworld novel, it tells the origin of the god Om, and his relations with his prophet, the reformer Brutha.

‘I said, that’s blasphemy!’
‘Blasphemy? How can I blaspheme? I’m a god!’

New Letterbox Edition now available! 📚 https://t.co/62nGIS8SwK

#discworld #discworldofficial #terrypratchett #sirterrypratchett #favouriteauthor #independentbookstore

[Jennifer D'aww @GMShivers]

Even the best boomers I know all told their millenial kids they'd end up pumping gas if they didn't go to university.

When they said they were going to wait a year to figure out what degree would be useful, they were penalized. If they stayed out to start a business, they were penalized.

You moved out into university housing or you worked a low wage job and your parents charged you exorbitant rent as a penalty until a more fortunate friend let you move in with them until you got right in your life.

Even my parents who I would consider better than most boomers, still did the whole "IF YE DONT GO TO CAWLEGE UR GUNNA HAVE TO PAYE RENT" and also do every chore in the house on top of rent because "You're at home and have all free time working on the computer"

[Jonathan Wong @WONGthink]

And just like that, digital ID has been brought in through the back door under the guise of protecting children.

Useful idiots in the Conservative Party are unwittingly doing Tony Blair's bidding.

[🙏🌧🌍 @godblesstoto]

You realise that parents can restrict access to specific sites through their home router and also via their children's mobile data contracts?

Of course you do. But that's not what this is about is it?

[No to Digital ID @NoToDigitalID]

Thank you. You’ve just enslaved the entire country to mandatory age checks.

🤦🤦

[Twm Ford ( ; Autistic, ADHD, Depressed) @fordlltwm]

@CalumDouglas1 Although, having reread the sticker it says 13A, so just the tester being uniformed, sadly very common in PAT testing. Lots of testers are scared of 60309 as "there's no fuse".

[Twm Ford ( ; Autistic, ADHD, Depressed) @fordlltwm]

@CalumDouglas1 Given it was tested 13 years ago, its quite possible that the plugs been changed in the intervening years. It won't have ever been fitted with a NEMA 6 50P in the UK, a 32A IEC 60309 is much more likely. You could go to a 63A 60309 but as it peaks at 30A that's unnecessary.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Within 10 seconds of meeting an autistic person, strangers rate them as awkward and lose interest in getting to know them. Show those same strangers only a written transcript of what was said, with no audio or video, and the bias completely disappears.

That finding came from a 2017 study at the University of Texas at Dallas, led by psychologist Noah Sasson and published in Scientific Reports. The bias came entirely from how autistic people sounded and looked.

For 40 years before that, scientists had been treating autism as a brain that couldn’t read other people. Diagnostic manuals listed it as a “social communication deficit.” When communication broke down, the autistic person was the broken link.

That whole frame has been coming apart over the last decade. The replacement is called the double empathy problem. Damian Milton, an autistic researcher, named it in a 2012 paper. When autistic and non-autistic people don’t understand each other, Milton argued, both sides are missing something. Autistic people don’t always read non-autistic people right, and the reverse is just as true. The breakdown belongs to both sides.

Catherine Crompton at the University of Edinburgh tested this with a telephone game in 2020. She lined up 72 adults in three kinds of groups: all autistic, all non-autistic, or mixed. The first person in the chain heard a story, then passed it down to person 2, then person 3, all the way to person 8.

The all-autistic groups passed the story along just as accurately as the all-non-autistic groups. The mixed groups lost the most details. People in the mixed groups also rated each other as feeling less connected.

In 2025, Crompton ran the whole thing again across Edinburgh, Nottingham, and UT Dallas with 311 participants. Nature Human Behaviour published the result. Same outcome.

Brett Heasman at the London School of Economics looked at families in 2018. He found that autistic people could usually guess what their non-autistic relatives thought of them, even when they disagreed. The non-autistic relatives, meanwhile, kept overestimating how self-absorbed their autistic family members were. The relatives were the ones missing things.

About 5.4 million American adults are on the autism spectrum. For most of their lives, the official story said their wiring was broken. The newer evidence puts the breakdown in a different place: between two brains trying to understand each other.

[Dragonfoot 🦕🦎 @melliellimelli]

@DreadPirate_J @Footbal48412973 @Frasier67Blank @drhingram I'm from Finland where schools don't have uniforms and I don't remember anyone getting bullied because they weren't in designer clothes. I was brutally bullied and never once did they mention clothes. Maybe UK parents are the issue telling their kids these lies🤔