rymer.bsky.social
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What did you think would happen when you restricted access to care?
December 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
What did you think would happen when you restricted access to care?
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An independent taskforce *just* did a huge review of ADHD in England, and the conclusion was that it's "under-recognised, under-diagnosed and under-treated."
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...
NHS England » Report of the independent ADHD Taskforce: Part 1
April 2025
www.england.nhs.uk
December 4, 2025 at 12:48 AM
An independent taskforce *just* did a huge review of ADHD in England, and the conclusion was that it's "under-recognised, under-diagnosed and under-treated."
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...
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If you want fewer people to be diagnosed with mental health problems, you should first try and make the world less maddening.
December 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
If you want fewer people to be diagnosed with mental health problems, you should first try and make the world less maddening.
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Ordering an inquiry into crisis levels in the diagnosis of neurodivergence, an issue that has uncovered how massively underdiagnosed, under-supported, and ignored (predominantly) the suffering of neurodiverse women has been since... Well, forever, is fine. It's fine. But...
December 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Ordering an inquiry into crisis levels in the diagnosis of neurodivergence, an issue that has uncovered how massively underdiagnosed, under-supported, and ignored (predominantly) the suffering of neurodiverse women has been since... Well, forever, is fine. It's fine. But...
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Last month, I found out I have hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, after decades of chronic pain and medical disinterest.
I've decided to write publicly about this, not just about hypermobility and its health impacts, but about how it feels when doctors don't care:
medium.com/p/4fea6398b8ba
I've decided to write publicly about this, not just about hypermobility and its health impacts, but about how it feels when doctors don't care:
medium.com/p/4fea6398b8ba
Welcome to my body
After twenty years of pain and repeated medical dead ends, a stranger sent me a message on Instagram. It led to a diagnosis all the doctors…
medium.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Last month, I found out I have hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, after decades of chronic pain and medical disinterest.
I've decided to write publicly about this, not just about hypermobility and its health impacts, but about how it feels when doctors don't care:
medium.com/p/4fea6398b8ba
I've decided to write publicly about this, not just about hypermobility and its health impacts, but about how it feels when doctors don't care:
medium.com/p/4fea6398b8ba
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This makes me feel physically sick. No MP should support any of these measures until they have spent a month each working in asylum detention and with unhoused people.
How dare she call this 'moral'? It's disgraceful.
How dare she call this 'moral'? It's disgraceful.
November 17, 2025 at 5:37 AM
This makes me feel physically sick. No MP should support any of these measures until they have spent a month each working in asylum detention and with unhoused people.
How dare she call this 'moral'? It's disgraceful.
How dare she call this 'moral'? It's disgraceful.
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It should be unthinkable to punish someone for needing help, but it seems as if that’s all this Labour government wants to do.
November 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
It should be unthinkable to punish someone for needing help, but it seems as if that’s all this Labour government wants to do.
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www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Words fail. Well, nothing says, "We care about children" more than criminalising the parent trying to protect them from further trauma, eh?
Do we learn absolutely nothing from one year to the next, as a nation?
Do we learn absolutely nothing from one year to the next, as a nation?
Domestic abuse victims who flee with children overseas to be criminalised under new law
Change to crime and policing bill backed by fathers’ rights groups seeking support in cross-border abduction cases
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:50 AM
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Words fail. Well, nothing says, "We care about children" more than criminalising the parent trying to protect them from further trauma, eh?
Do we learn absolutely nothing from one year to the next, as a nation?
Do we learn absolutely nothing from one year to the next, as a nation?
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You’d have to be a colossal level of prat to fall for this or a complete asshole who gets their happiness from the suffering of others.
November 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
You’d have to be a colossal level of prat to fall for this or a complete asshole who gets their happiness from the suffering of others.
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This is a lie. Trans people are not a "risk" to cis women.
The only women put at risk by the continued pursuit of bigotry are trans women.
That's what they want. And when they've got you to accept that persecution, they'll come for abortion, & equal marriage, & contraception, & divorce...
The only women put at risk by the continued pursuit of bigotry are trans women.
That's what they want. And when they've got you to accept that persecution, they'll come for abortion, & equal marriage, & contraception, & divorce...
Claire Coutinho writing in the Times today that "Every day of delay over the guidance puts women at risk"
November 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
This is a lie. Trans people are not a "risk" to cis women.
The only women put at risk by the continued pursuit of bigotry are trans women.
That's what they want. And when they've got you to accept that persecution, they'll come for abortion, & equal marriage, & contraception, & divorce...
The only women put at risk by the continued pursuit of bigotry are trans women.
That's what they want. And when they've got you to accept that persecution, they'll come for abortion, & equal marriage, & contraception, & divorce...
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In the Guardian today 👇
October 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
In the Guardian today 👇
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Work is not a health outcome. It’s a social determinant — and sometimes a damaging one. Putting DWP work coaches in GP surgeries turns healthcare into a branch of welfare policing.
October 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Work is not a health outcome. It’s a social determinant — and sometimes a damaging one. Putting DWP work coaches in GP surgeries turns healthcare into a branch of welfare policing.
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Tomorrow Trump will announce the ‘cause’ of autism, something he says is ‘out of control’. He also doesn’t care if (read: that) what he says is wrong.
Autism isn’t out of control, but ableism is.
Autism isn’t out of control, but eugenics are.
Autism isn’t out of control, but ableism is.
Autism isn’t out of control, but eugenics are.
September 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Tomorrow Trump will announce the ‘cause’ of autism, something he says is ‘out of control’. He also doesn’t care if (read: that) what he says is wrong.
Autism isn’t out of control, but ableism is.
Autism isn’t out of control, but eugenics are.
Autism isn’t out of control, but ableism is.
Autism isn’t out of control, but eugenics are.
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Autism is not an anxiety problem or lack of 'resilience'.
It is genetics based & very clearly a difference in how the brain functions, takes in sensory and social information, and communicates socially.
We need to provide proper accommodations, or take responsibility for failure when we do not.
It is genetics based & very clearly a difference in how the brain functions, takes in sensory and social information, and communicates socially.
We need to provide proper accommodations, or take responsibility for failure when we do not.
September 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Autism is not an anxiety problem or lack of 'resilience'.
It is genetics based & very clearly a difference in how the brain functions, takes in sensory and social information, and communicates socially.
We need to provide proper accommodations, or take responsibility for failure when we do not.
It is genetics based & very clearly a difference in how the brain functions, takes in sensory and social information, and communicates socially.
We need to provide proper accommodations, or take responsibility for failure when we do not.
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The Government will be testing the emergency alert system this Sunday at 3pm. Compatible mobile phones and tablets will make a loud siren-like sound and vibrate. If you have a device hidden from an abuser, this alert could reveal it. You can opt out using the advice below. www.gov.uk/alerts/optin...
September 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The Government will be testing the emergency alert system this Sunday at 3pm. Compatible mobile phones and tablets will make a loud siren-like sound and vibrate. If you have a device hidden from an abuser, this alert could reveal it. You can opt out using the advice below. www.gov.uk/alerts/optin...
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If folk are so keen on ‘protecting women and girls’, how about campaigning on the conviction rate for reported rape which is 2%?
August 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
If folk are so keen on ‘protecting women and girls’, how about campaigning on the conviction rate for reported rape which is 2%?
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I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.
The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.
Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.
Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
August 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.
The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.
Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.
Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
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The one thing that’s making me madder than anything else around disabled people’s fight to stop welfare cuts is that it’s only us fighting. We see allies standing loudly for trans rights and Palestine -as they should - but where are they in our fight? Why don’t we matter as much?
(I know why)
(I know why)
July 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The one thing that’s making me madder than anything else around disabled people’s fight to stop welfare cuts is that it’s only us fighting. We see allies standing loudly for trans rights and Palestine -as they should - but where are they in our fight? Why don’t we matter as much?
(I know why)
(I know why)
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If any journalist actually understood disability benefits, they’d be asking @KemiBadenoch whether constipation or food intolerance were even the sole conditions because:
1. DWP PIP data doesn’t record that.
2. Both are usually co-morbid with notoriously severe illnesses.
1. DWP PIP data doesn’t record that.
2. Both are usually co-morbid with notoriously severe illnesses.
July 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
If any journalist actually understood disability benefits, they’d be asking @KemiBadenoch whether constipation or food intolerance were even the sole conditions because:
1. DWP PIP data doesn’t record that.
2. Both are usually co-morbid with notoriously severe illnesses.
1. DWP PIP data doesn’t record that.
2. Both are usually co-morbid with notoriously severe illnesses.
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Someone just tweeted me and said we can’t afford to have 20–25% of the population on PIP.
So, as a PSA: 20–25% of the population AREN’T on PIP.
20–25% of the disabled population are on PIP.
The percentage of the whole population is 5.5%.
#TakingThePIP
So, as a PSA: 20–25% of the population AREN’T on PIP.
20–25% of the disabled population are on PIP.
The percentage of the whole population is 5.5%.
#TakingThePIP
July 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Someone just tweeted me and said we can’t afford to have 20–25% of the population on PIP.
So, as a PSA: 20–25% of the population AREN’T on PIP.
20–25% of the disabled population are on PIP.
The percentage of the whole population is 5.5%.
#TakingThePIP
So, as a PSA: 20–25% of the population AREN’T on PIP.
20–25% of the disabled population are on PIP.
The percentage of the whole population is 5.5%.
#TakingThePIP
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Perhaps one day, a man will say “on reflection, my behaviour was inappropriate and I apologise to everyone affected”.
July 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Perhaps one day, a man will say “on reflection, my behaviour was inappropriate and I apologise to everyone affected”.
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JFC this just gets worse. I don’t like wearing tight trousers so I wear baggy ones? This is ludicrous. Autistic or not there is no good excuse for what he did. And no good excuse for tarnishing our community with this utter nonsense.
In the world of 'You just can't make this up', this, from today's Times, in which we are told that Mr W - rich, famous, cannot possibly cover his bits at appropriate times because he can't wear pants. And that's because he's autistic.
I don't know where to begin unpacking how much 'no' this is.
I don't know where to begin unpacking how much 'no' this is.
July 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
JFC this just gets worse. I don’t like wearing tight trousers so I wear baggy ones? This is ludicrous. Autistic or not there is no good excuse for what he did. And no good excuse for tarnishing our community with this utter nonsense.
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And the Universal Credit bill has passed. Some of the sickest people in the country will suffer needlessly more now. There is no justification, no excuse. Just ugly, cruel choices by ministers too cowardly to tax the wealthy rather than cut the poor. A shameful day for Starmer’s Labour.
July 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
And the Universal Credit bill has passed. Some of the sickest people in the country will suffer needlessly more now. There is no justification, no excuse. Just ugly, cruel choices by ministers too cowardly to tax the wealthy rather than cut the poor. A shameful day for Starmer’s Labour.
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Emergency Alert day has been confirmed as 7th September. If you have a secret phone for safety go to settings and turn off all government notifications. Setting it to silent or airplane is not enough 🚨 (guidance on each step is on the internet). Spread the word
July 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Emergency Alert day has been confirmed as 7th September. If you have a secret phone for safety go to settings and turn off all government notifications. Setting it to silent or airplane is not enough 🚨 (guidance on each step is on the internet). Spread the word