Have you been good?

Is that you with Santa Claus?

I wasn’t just last to be picked, I was offered to the other team

Exactly.

That’s the same document

Exactly. If you read it the only Rwandan refugee involved (not represented by Starmer) was -a 42 year old woman

The court case used as ‘evidence’ all over social media shows that Starmer was in court arguing for the rights of specific asylum seekers to financial assistance- none of whom were a man from Rwanda.

That’s a lie

Hello!

I think Twitter does this too?

The ‘lived experience’ tag can exclude people too. In autism it can mean that only articulate autistic people can be involved in research. It drives caregivers of children/adults with severe learning disabilities mad. Their ‘lived experience’ often cannot be directly expressed

It’s often used to shut people up.

All have ‘experience’ but only two have ‘lived experience’ and those are in different categories. Still not sure how useful the phrase is though. You could just say autistic people, parents of autistic children/adults, caregivers and medical specialists.

I agree it grates. The aim was to separate direct and indirect experience- so a person with autism will have ‘lived experience’ of having autism, while a parent will have ‘lived experience’ of being a parent/carer and a doctor or researcher of autism will have a professional experience of autism.

Have sent you a message

Our entire lives

So sad. I’m worried she will feel dreadfully confused

Have you tried asking the pharmacists? The long acting meds seem to have vanished by there are short lived meds such as Tranquilin available if you keep hunting. It’s not OK, I agree but issue seems to be soaring demand plus quotas.