“We can’t afford so many autistic and ADHD people on benefits.” Translation: we can afford MPs’ expenses, banker bonuses, corporate tax breaks, corporate tax evasion — but not disabled kids having support, dignity, possibility. #Disability isn’t the drain.

Today was the first time I understood on a deep, instinctive level that Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel are two people.

It is worth pointing out again: None of these people actually believe any of this horse shit, because if they did they would simply abandon their job and get all this incredibly easy to get free stuff they keep claiming exists. They don't, because they know it's not real.

How nice of the government to celebrate World Autism Day by releasing snippets from a "review" implying people are just making it up due to "perverse incentives" like "getting support" and "having enough money to live".

Wish I knew what these incentives were because all I seem to get is a bunch of meltdowns, shutdowns and stigma.

Loool the only "incentive" is that workplaces have to find another reason to constructively dismiss you

Safety nets do not stop people working. They stop people dying, collapsing, becoming homeless, and giving up. And sometimes, they give people just enough safety to try again.

If you’ve got nothing to hide, you’ve got nothing to worry about.” Disabled people hear this all the time… and it completely ignores reality. Because we do have something to worry about. We worry about being disbelieved. We worry about being watched, questioned, and judged.

Hunger isn’t about budgeting. People on the lowest incomes already know exactly where every penny goes. The problem is they don’t have enough pennies in the first place.

FACT: many disabled people in Canada are applying for MAID, not because they can’t live with their disabilities, but because they are intentionally impoverished and denied the supports they need to live.

Katharine Birbalsingh denying the reality of disabilities isn't “tough love” - it's ableist cruelty. 👀 Telling autistic, ADHD, or disabled kids their struggles are just “cultural failure” and forcing them to mask in her bootcamp school? That's gaslighting them into shame and

Must look after the toffs

Labour has an ableism problem. The Prime Minister & his Cabinet are all ableist bigots, hypocritically inflicting upon disabled & ill people the cuts they (rightly) condemned their predecessors for. Labour are liars, bigots &, ultimately, wilful killers of vulnerable people.

Familiar story. Government is banging on about getting disabled people into work. But in the real world this is what happens. And it has nothing to say about it

Labour used up a lot of the goodwill people had for them early on by trying to slash disabled people’s benefits, insisting they can all just get one of the jobs that don’t exist. This is what happens when they try, and Labour are doing nothing to change it.

Look: There is no such thing as overdiagnosis. There is just diagnosis (correct) or misdiagnosis (wrong). If a diagnosis is correct, then you can't have too much of it.