Inclusion can’t come from erasure.
Removing neurodiversity and diagnosis from education doesn’t create belonging—it silences it.
True inclusion means recognising difference, not pretending it isn’t there.
autisticrealms.com/inclusion-ne...

Who decides (professionals or individuals) if fear of X is unreasonable/unfounded and therefore a person is anxious?

Gold standard anxiety treatment is CBT graded exposure. Will more of X make a person feel better?

Or is it a stress reaction or a trauma response?

Treatments vary a lot.

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

🔬Interesting new brainstem and cerebellum study in Long COVID - new imaging findings

A new brain imaging study of Long COVID patients reveals major damage in key parts of the brain responsible for movement, balance, and automatic body functions like heart rate and sleep

Let’s break it down🧵

1. The most important point in this article is the 20% study group prevalence of anosognosia: having cognitive dysfunction but not being aware of it.

academic.oup.com/acn/advance-...

Incredibly powerful watch about the government plan on ME from @binitakane.bsky.social and Sarah, whose daughter Maeve died from ME.

NHS urgently needs to commission specialist services for the 100,000s people living with this debilitating condition.

watch here
youtu.be/GZbSrdtiA9k?...

I did my safeguarding level 3 mandatory training this week on FII (Fabricated or induced illness - seen as a form of child abuse) and PP (perplexing presentations) i.e. symptoms that don’t make sense to paediatricians.

Look at the symptoms that these ‘abusive’ parents may report.

📚💙 This quote will resonate & reach out to so many women with chronic illness. We know the system is broken but it impacts our lives in profound & traumatic ways.

It's from the Healthcare chpt in 'Who Wants Normal?' by @francesryan.bsky.social

Powerful & validating.

#pedanticzebra

Our evidence-based rebuttal to *that* BMJ opinion piece published last week.
This has been authored by a coalition of 19 doctors, scientists and patient advocates from around the world, with now 80+ signatures of support from the scientific community.

www.bmj.com/content/389/...

An illustration to help differentiate inequality, equality, equity and justice. It is justice we are ultimately striving to achieve and it’s important to remember that.

#autism #autistic #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #neurodivergence #AutisticExperience #inequality #equality #equity #justice

Hello #edpsychs! I wondered whether I could ask for some advice.

Excitingly, I’ve been invited to interview for a DEdPsych course. I have long covid though, and I’m worried whether I could do it. Does anyone have any advice for how to manage this work/training/interview with a long-term condition?

Feels like a good time for a thread about all things exercise for people living with infection (and exposure)-associated complex chronic illnesses (IACCs) such as #MECFS, #LongCOVID and chronic #Lyme /tick- and vector-borne illness. Let’s start with a trip down memory lane.
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I have been running a non-fiction book club in our bookshop since 2017.

Here are 10 books that we’ve read that have inspired the best and most memorable discussions and left the most lasting impact.

Some are stone cold classics, and some are more recent less well-known offerings 👇

Mental imagery is increasingly being used to tackle anhedonia in depression, because imagining reward can boost anticipatory pleasure & motivation.

But does mental imagery use influence the self-reporting of anhedonia symptoms?🤔

Yes. A🧵on our new open access 🗞️: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....