Maggie Dods

Author of A Short Guide to Writing Well, What You Know That Ain't So, and Boo & Hooray. And a few novels about witches:

[Maggie Dods @MagDods]

Read my latest: A Short Guide to Writing Well. You'll never split an infinitive again! Unless you really want to... https://t.co/rtgBKpNr9M

[Maggie Dods @MagDods]

@HazelAppleyard "Nobody knows." Really?

[Sex Matters @SexMattersOrg]

NEW: City of London report recommends that trans-identifying men continue to use the Ladies’ Pond.

“This proposed policy is simply unlawful. It is operating as if Hampstead Heath is an enclave that is outside of the law.” @MForstater in @myldn
https://t.co/Yn8zJBcDLc

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@Sorelle_Arduino Actually he is putting pressure on them to come with him and stubbornly not giving up.

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@Autistic_Lauren Probably did.

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@HazelAppleyard No. And if it did, physical intimidation is not an argument.

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If only autistic people had low IQs instead of high IQs. Really high IQs. Then we could patronise and manage them. They wouldn't keep popping up and Lord forbid SPEAKING FOR THEMSELVES. And pointing out flaws in your logic. But we aren't going back in the box.

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And now some dim-bulbs want to get the rights without the procedure. "We're as good as married!" So get married.

Costs £100 at a registry office. They will provide witnesses.

[Maggie Dods @MagDods]

Met two people recently who were shocked to hear that there is, legally, a difference between being married or not. If you're not married, you're not protected by the law. If your partner defaults, he can keep all the money and the house and you don't have a legal leg to stand on

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If you are getting married, see a lawyer and get him to talk you through it.

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@Autistic_Lauren Mrs Fletcher has many social skills - but she can't drive.

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@Autistic_Lauren If the authors never use the word, they can write about a kind of "folk autism". Dog in the Nighttime, The Bridge, Return to Paradise. Any detective who always wears same clothes (Columbo) and drives a funny car in a funny way (Columbo). Looking forward to the return of Ludwig.

[Robert A @Schmubacca]

@Autistic_Lauren 1000% Charlie Brown was autistic. He was my hero growing up because, somehow, no matter how many times life knocked him down, he would just get up again.

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@reddit_lies Genocide and ethnic cleansing are not the same thing.

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@autocorrect2_0 They understood contagion and were good on dry rot.

[Gay Not Queer @Gaynotqueer1]

Imagine having to make a bill to stop men from entering women's bathrooms.

[Paul Ridley @PaulRidley5]

Autism, you can read a 100 books about it, but you have to live it to truly understand it

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@reddit_lies I really wish!!!! Poor human, he so nearly gets it. He DOES get it. What an awful place to find yourself in.

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@Autistic_Lauren I wish we'd had more of them. I could do PE, couldn't do anything that involved throwing and catching.

[Maggie Dods @MagDods]

Has anyone else been bitten by the no-see-ums? Tiny, red, very itchy bites.