Maxine Roper
@maxinefrances.bsky.social
Writer. Voiceover. ‘No Heels, No Problem: A Neurodivergent Survival Guide To Adult Life When You’re Dyspraxic or ADHD ‘ out now https://maxinefrancesroper.co.uk 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇩🇪
Amazing, really, that there are still people who think writers can’t be autistic. I mean, “caring enough about something to spend years thinking about it for little or no money” is your first clue right there…
I wrote about systemic medical bias, chocolate medals and Eamonn Holmes
Diagnosed but not believed: Autistic women and the medical gaze
A GP I met for the first time three minutes ago is glancing over my electronic health record, trying to match it with the woman before him…
medium.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Amazing, really, that there are still people who think writers can’t be autistic. I mean, “caring enough about something to spend years thinking about it for little or no money” is your first clue right there…
“She’s never boring…”
What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.
November 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
“She’s never boring…”
Long distance relationship texts…
November 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Long distance relationship texts…
Caught the lurgy again. Wtf, body.
November 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Caught the lurgy again. Wtf, body.
🎄1 month til Christmas! If you’re lucky enough to have a Dyspraxic or ADHD person in your life, my book “No Heels No Problem: A Neurodivergent Survival Guide to Adult Life When You’re Dyspraxic or ADHD” would make a lovely gift.
*AND it’s dead easy to wrap & unwrap! uk.jkp.com/products/no-...
*AND it’s dead easy to wrap & unwrap! uk.jkp.com/products/no-...
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
🎄1 month til Christmas! If you’re lucky enough to have a Dyspraxic or ADHD person in your life, my book “No Heels No Problem: A Neurodivergent Survival Guide to Adult Life When You’re Dyspraxic or ADHD” would make a lovely gift.
*AND it’s dead easy to wrap & unwrap! uk.jkp.com/products/no-...
*AND it’s dead easy to wrap & unwrap! uk.jkp.com/products/no-...
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
Facts which are still blowing my mind: Atomic Kitten were put together by one of OMD… www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Tracks which are still banging: ‘Scandalous” by Misteeq.
Tracks which are still banging: ‘Scandalous” by Misteeq.
BBC Two - Girlbands Forever, Series 1, Episode 2
It's the new millennium, and the next generation of girl bands deal with the spotlight.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Facts which are still blowing my mind: Atomic Kitten were put together by one of OMD… www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Tracks which are still banging: ‘Scandalous” by Misteeq.
Tracks which are still banging: ‘Scandalous” by Misteeq.
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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From my Facebook memories today.
A useful reminder that hyphens can be very important...
A useful reminder that hyphens can be very important...
November 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
From my Facebook memories today.
A useful reminder that hyphens can be very important...
A useful reminder that hyphens can be very important...
German words we need: The guilt - when the way your brain works could render you offputting to others - of describing someone else with a similar brain as being offputting*…
*none of you, just fyi
*none of you, just fyi
November 21, 2025 at 9:03 AM
German words we need: The guilt - when the way your brain works could render you offputting to others - of describing someone else with a similar brain as being offputting*…
*none of you, just fyi
*none of you, just fyi
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RIP Mani
youtu.be/3QLMS0QsPF0
youtu.be/3QLMS0QsPF0
The Stone Roses - Waterfall (Live On The Other Side Of Midnight) 1989 1080p 60fps
YouTube video by Mucky Fingers
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November 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
RIP Mani
youtu.be/3QLMS0QsPF0
youtu.be/3QLMS0QsPF0
This infographic makes it look like Dyspraxics are wanted for a spate of burglaries in the Thames Ditton area…
November 20, 2025 at 8:43 AM
This infographic makes it look like Dyspraxics are wanted for a spate of burglaries in the Thames Ditton area…
Today’s Thing: Did probably the most personal int I’ve ever done (for a podcast, due out in Feb).
Coincidentally, today is also the anniversary of one of life’s ‘Before’ and ‘After’ moments. If you know, you know, etc…
Coincidentally, today is also the anniversary of one of life’s ‘Before’ and ‘After’ moments. If you know, you know, etc…
November 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Today’s Thing: Did probably the most personal int I’ve ever done (for a podcast, due out in Feb).
Coincidentally, today is also the anniversary of one of life’s ‘Before’ and ‘After’ moments. If you know, you know, etc…
Coincidentally, today is also the anniversary of one of life’s ‘Before’ and ‘After’ moments. If you know, you know, etc…
(Lovely, I should add…)
So today I was interviewed by a reporter at the paper where I did work experience the year before she was born…
November 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
(Lovely, I should add…)
So today I was interviewed by a reporter at the paper where I did work experience the year before she was born…
November 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
So today I was interviewed by a reporter at the paper where I did work experience the year before she was born…
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By mimicking Reform to win back support, the Labour government is making a serious mistake. This race to the bottom emboldens Farage, punishes vulnerable people, amplifies racism, and undermines those working to hold communities together.
November 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
By mimicking Reform to win back support, the Labour government is making a serious mistake. This race to the bottom emboldens Farage, punishes vulnerable people, amplifies racism, and undermines those working to hold communities together.
Love this thread. Although not, obviously, the situation.
(Historically, my version of ‘showing up at your house with a baseball bat’ is ‘writing an ill-advisable long letter’. Which can go about as well…)
(Historically, my version of ‘showing up at your house with a baseball bat’ is ‘writing an ill-advisable long letter’. Which can go about as well…)
Yesterday I was going through something super tough and someone came for me at the exact most vulnerable moment and was like the biggest jerk and it has been 24 hours of the most intense self regulation I have ever exerted upon myself and fam I am VIBRATING
November 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Love this thread. Although not, obviously, the situation.
(Historically, my version of ‘showing up at your house with a baseball bat’ is ‘writing an ill-advisable long letter’. Which can go about as well…)
(Historically, my version of ‘showing up at your house with a baseball bat’ is ‘writing an ill-advisable long letter’. Which can go about as well…)
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whenever the sun sets at 4:45 pm i open a window, lean out and yell "WRONG" as loud as i can. that usually buys me another hour or two of sunlight
November 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
whenever the sun sets at 4:45 pm i open a window, lean out and yell "WRONG" as loud as i can. that usually buys me another hour or two of sunlight
What is happening
November 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
What is happening
Been indoors with some phase of lurgy for most of November. Today I went out for a sunny walk with a podcast on in prep for a book event, and it felt like how I felt after I ran 18 miles for the first time…
November 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Been indoors with some phase of lurgy for most of November. Today I went out for a sunny walk with a podcast on in prep for a book event, and it felt like how I felt after I ran 18 miles for the first time…
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As a teenage girl, you believe you are much older than you are. The job of adults is to try and disabuse you of that notion. Exploiting it is unforgivable.
November 17, 2025 at 12:55 AM
As a teenage girl, you believe you are much older than you are. The job of adults is to try and disabuse you of that notion. Exploiting it is unforgivable.
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“One of the things that really gives me joy is the fact that there are so many amazing, brilliant, creative disabled people out there. But part of my rage — and it’s a very real rage — is that most people don’t really know about them.”
Obit:
Obit:
Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
“One of the things that really gives me joy is the fact that there are so many amazing, brilliant, creative disabled people out there. But part of my rage — and it’s a very real rage — is that most people don’t really know about them.”
Obit:
Obit:
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It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
November 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.