Mel Lawrence 🌈

Friends with Dogs🐶! Bach. of Social Work student at @CharlesSturtUni📜. Interested in the world of neurodiversity🧠, mental wellbeing🌿, games🎮🎲 and tech💻.

[GreatValleyGuru @ManticoreFire]

The day is finally here! Happy 35th birthday, Land Before Time!

[ADHD Designer 🟣👩🏻‍💻 @ADHDdesigner]

Desperate to change the perception of ADHD from:
“People with ADHD can’t stick to anything.”

To

“People with ADHD can cover a large spectrum of different subjects very quickly and pick up and succeed at super-quickly learn about what is interesting to them.”

[Erin Ekins (she/her) @QueerlyAutistic]

If your neurodivergent inclusive policies only kick in when someone discloses that they're neurodivergent, then these policies are not truly inclusive of neurodivergent people. As much as it can be, accessibility should be inbuilt, not reliant on diagnosis or disclosure.

[Mel Lawrence 🌈 @heymellawrence]

Bella Ramsey! Wow!

What an amazing actor! What an amazing show.

It's like playing the game over again, but more intense!

#TheLastOfUsHBO #tlou #BellaRamsey

[Mel Lawrence 🌈 @heymellawrence]

@maddisondesigns @nerdist Yeah I only just picked it up. So clever they way they showed that though!

[Mel Lawrence 🌈 @heymellawrence]

*correction raisin ccokies

[Mel Lawrence 🌈 @heymellawrence]

@chelsea_davison And Sarah not wanting to eat the neighbours date cookies.

[Mel Lawrence 🌈 @heymellawrence]

@maddisondesigns My heart! Has to be the best episode of a show I've seen in a while!

[Metafy @TryMetafy]

The first episode of The Last of Us was really great but could’ve used a scene where Joel wanders around a room for 7 minutes before googling what he’s supposed to do to keep going

[DoubleCritFail @DoubleCritFail]

Congrats, @Wizards_DnD. Biggest crossover event of all time. (Turn on those speakers 🔊)

#OpenDnD #DnDBeGone #5e #dnd #WotC

[Mel Lawrence 🌈 @heymellawrence]

@maddisondesigns Me too!

[Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD @Nicole_Lee_Sch]

Self dx is valid, it's understandable, and it literally saves lives. To treat patients as if they're incapable of this work or uninformed is to stake a claim that power and privilege over care and knowledge belong to medical professionals alone. 22/22 #DisabilityTwitter #HistMed

[Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD @Nicole_Lee_Sch]

The real question is: why are patients seeking answers treated as if they are incapable of practicing these basic approaches to science? And why is formal medical training treated as the only way of truly knowing the body? 21/22

[Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD @Nicole_Lee_Sch]

The medical community does not have a monopoly over the ability to make empirical observations, to gather data, to research patterns, to speak to patient communities, and to come to conclusions. The science is flawed, no matter who is doing it. 20/22

[Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD @Nicole_Lee_Sch]

And they're often doing better science. They're looking at huge patient communities. They're collecting and reading targeted information and going through up to date literature. And they're claiming knowledge about their own bodies that doctors cannot and will never hold. 18/22

[Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD @Nicole_Lee_Sch]

When people self-diagnosis they are doing the exact same process as medical doctors - gathering data, looking over tests and biomarkers, soliciting interviews from patients with the suspected condition. In fact they're doing more science than most doctors. 17/22

[Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD @Nicole_Lee_Sch]

Getting a diagnosis from a doctor gives a snapshot at a moment in medical history. It doesn't tell the embodied experience of a patient. It doesn't convey what the patient might need, or the resources they could secure, or the knowledge they have about their own bodies. 16/22