Aoife Walsh
@aoifewalsh.bsky.social
Writes books; likes books; likes country music; likes Transformers and Real Housewives; likes a lot of semi-colons. Still hanging out in dark bars (in my mind). ND. She/her. Pretty marvellous.
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Aoife Walsh
@aoifewalsh.bsky.social
· Apr 2
Ten years ago this book came out and I went to see it in Waterstones and went visibly all funny. Tomorrow it comes out AGAIN. Hot dog. Different cover now, up to date and all that, but the same good ol’ autistic heart. Maybe you should read it or something. @andersenpress.bsky.social
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I RAGED at this on the radio yesterday, and will repeat my mantra: you cannot (MUST NOT) ask people to develop 'resilience' or 'grit' against those things that are in your power to change. 'Develop resilience' so often means 'your disability is inconveniencing me, please be less disabled' 🧵
This headline & Streeting's words are an insult to the thousands of neurodiverse kids who've been monumentally failed by an NHS on its knees where early interventions are provided by charities - if at all.
But yeah, put the onus back on to children to suck it up instead of addressing what's broken
But yeah, put the onus back on to children to suck it up instead of addressing what's broken
May 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I RAGED at this on the radio yesterday, and will repeat my mantra: you cannot (MUST NOT) ask people to develop 'resilience' or 'grit' against those things that are in your power to change. 'Develop resilience' so often means 'your disability is inconveniencing me, please be less disabled' 🧵
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They have no fucking idea how much “grit” a gender dysphoric kid with ADHD had to show going to a primary school in the Derbyshire coalfields in the 70s.
The people who write this shit wouldn’t last 5 minutes of my life.
They think we’re fragile? We are the strongest fucking people alive.
The people who write this shit wouldn’t last 5 minutes of my life.
They think we’re fragile? We are the strongest fucking people alive.
This headline & Streeting's words are an insult to the thousands of neurodiverse kids who've been monumentally failed by an NHS on its knees where early interventions are provided by charities - if at all.
But yeah, put the onus back on to children to suck it up instead of addressing what's broken
But yeah, put the onus back on to children to suck it up instead of addressing what's broken
May 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
They have no fucking idea how much “grit” a gender dysphoric kid with ADHD had to show going to a primary school in the Derbyshire coalfields in the 70s.
The people who write this shit wouldn’t last 5 minutes of my life.
They think we’re fragile? We are the strongest fucking people alive.
The people who write this shit wouldn’t last 5 minutes of my life.
They think we’re fragile? We are the strongest fucking people alive.
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I honestly am out of ideas for what is wrong with Streeting if he thinks going back to saying "toughen up" to an undiagnosed 7 year old girl in 1992 crying in the school toilets because i didn't know why i was different, he thinks that's the frickin answer?!
This headline & Streeting's words are an insult to the thousands of neurodiverse kids who've been monumentally failed by an NHS on its knees where early interventions are provided by charities - if at all.
But yeah, put the onus back on to children to suck it up instead of addressing what's broken
But yeah, put the onus back on to children to suck it up instead of addressing what's broken
May 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I honestly am out of ideas for what is wrong with Streeting if he thinks going back to saying "toughen up" to an undiagnosed 7 year old girl in 1992 crying in the school toilets because i didn't know why i was different, he thinks that's the frickin answer?!
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The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening.
That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.
Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.
Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
May 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening.
That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.
Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.
Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
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The @societyofauthors.bsky.social can provide a clause to add to your contact. That's what I did.
Writers: before you sign a contract with a publisher, make sure AI isn't replacing your illustrator, your translator, your editor, your jacket designer. Readers: if you're thinking of buying a book, do the same. Refuse. Resist. If AI garbage doesn't sell, people will stop making it.
May 12, 2025 at 5:41 AM
The @societyofauthors.bsky.social can provide a clause to add to your contact. That's what I did.
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While cops were freaking out at the nothing happening at Columbia yesterday, other cops were using chemical weapons banned in actual war as actual war crimes against students at CCNY just a dozen blocks north up in Harlem
www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/24/c...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/24/c...
April 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
While cops were freaking out at the nothing happening at Columbia yesterday, other cops were using chemical weapons banned in actual war as actual war crimes against students at CCNY just a dozen blocks north up in Harlem
www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/24/c...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/24/c...
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The BBC keep doing this. This isn't true. This is straightforwardly wrong in law. The ruling *only* applied to the Equality Act 2010. Trans women are still legally women for the vast majority of purposes! That's the whole point of the Gender Recognition Act.
I've put in a complaint. So can you.
I've put in a complaint. So can you.
April 25, 2025 at 8:14 AM
The BBC keep doing this. This isn't true. This is straightforwardly wrong in law. The ruling *only* applied to the Equality Act 2010. Trans women are still legally women for the vast majority of purposes! That's the whole point of the Gender Recognition Act.
I've put in a complaint. So can you.
I've put in a complaint. So can you.
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World Central Kitchen in Gaza are having to burn shipping pallets because there's no fuel to cook with.
Now their supplies are running out due to the blockade preventing delivery of aid and supplies.
Now their supplies are running out due to the blockade preventing delivery of aid and supplies.
April 25, 2025 at 8:40 AM
World Central Kitchen in Gaza are having to burn shipping pallets because there's no fuel to cook with.
Now their supplies are running out due to the blockade preventing delivery of aid and supplies.
Now their supplies are running out due to the blockade preventing delivery of aid and supplies.
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Missed the part where trans people were dragging random people out of cars and setting fire to hotels with people inside. Still, we did use chalk on a statue so that's clearly the same.
The Director of Transgender Trend on the tv, talking about how the Trans Rights protests are the same as the Far Right protests which Starmer shut down, and yet he's "silent" about these "anti-women" protests lol
What a shocker. We aren't even allowed to be upset
What a shocker. We aren't even allowed to be upset
April 25, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Missed the part where trans people were dragging random people out of cars and setting fire to hotels with people inside. Still, we did use chalk on a statue so that's clearly the same.
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Reality of being disabled. But the government and media will lie and push propaganda, exactly as the nazis did, that disabled people are a burden on the state.
As i said before, disabled people were the nazis FIRST target to m*rder en masse. And too many seem to be ignoring that fact.
As i said before, disabled people were the nazis FIRST target to m*rder en masse. And too many seem to be ignoring that fact.
February 1, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Reality of being disabled. But the government and media will lie and push propaganda, exactly as the nazis did, that disabled people are a burden on the state.
As i said before, disabled people were the nazis FIRST target to m*rder en masse. And too many seem to be ignoring that fact.
As i said before, disabled people were the nazis FIRST target to m*rder en masse. And too many seem to be ignoring that fact.
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so SO delighted to see that @andersenpress.bsky.social have reissued this! it's a lovely, lovely thing and I have nothing but love for it. if you love a Streatfeild / EBD / classicy yummy children's vibe, you'll love it too.
Ten years ago this book came out and I went to see it in Waterstones and went visibly all funny. Tomorrow it comes out AGAIN. Hot dog. Different cover now, up to date and all that, but the same good ol’ autistic heart. Maybe you should read it or something. @andersenpress.bsky.social
April 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
so SO delighted to see that @andersenpress.bsky.social have reissued this! it's a lovely, lovely thing and I have nothing but love for it. if you love a Streatfeild / EBD / classicy yummy children's vibe, you'll love it too.
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Mass starvation. Ethnic cleansing. Genocide.
That is what our government is enabling — and it should be eternally ashamed.
End all arms sales to Israel now.
That is what our government is enabling — and it should be eternally ashamed.
End all arms sales to Israel now.
April 4, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Mass starvation. Ethnic cleansing. Genocide.
That is what our government is enabling — and it should be eternally ashamed.
End all arms sales to Israel now.
That is what our government is enabling — and it should be eternally ashamed.
End all arms sales to Israel now.
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I don't often lack words for what I'm seeing, but I am absolutely without words: TX-03 Congressman really just quoted Joseph Goebbels and then walked out of the committee like he hit a home run.
Oh just Texas Congressman Keith Self directly quoting Joseph Goebbels during a congressional hearing….what planet are we on smh
April 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I don't often lack words for what I'm seeing, but I am absolutely without words: TX-03 Congressman really just quoted Joseph Goebbels and then walked out of the committee like he hit a home run.
What the hey, @theguardian.com. Is this your new agenda? Hoping to pick up a few semi-fascist readers, are you? Disabled children - the ideal whipping boy.
They're at it again, friends. Why is the Guardian so invested in painting disabled kids as a burden? This is barely 2 weeks after "potholes"
April 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
What the hey, @theguardian.com. Is this your new agenda? Hoping to pick up a few semi-fascist readers, are you? Disabled children - the ideal whipping boy.
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They're at it again, friends. Why is the Guardian so invested in painting disabled kids as a burden? This is barely 2 weeks after "potholes"
April 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
They're at it again, friends. Why is the Guardian so invested in painting disabled kids as a burden? This is barely 2 weeks after "potholes"
Ten years ago this book came out and I went to see it in Waterstones and went visibly all funny. Tomorrow it comes out AGAIN. Hot dog. Different cover now, up to date and all that, but the same good ol’ autistic heart. Maybe you should read it or something. @andersenpress.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Ten years ago this book came out and I went to see it in Waterstones and went visibly all funny. Tomorrow it comes out AGAIN. Hot dog. Different cover now, up to date and all that, but the same good ol’ autistic heart. Maybe you should read it or something. @andersenpress.bsky.social
Lads I've got a book out the day after tomorrow. This is it, this is the fanfare.
To be fair it's a re-release rather than a brand new story, but I updated it and wrote a foreword and everything, and it's got a new cover.
It's called Too Close To Home. It's lovable.
To be fair it's a re-release rather than a brand new story, but I updated it and wrote a foreword and everything, and it's got a new cover.
It's called Too Close To Home. It's lovable.
April 1, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Lads I've got a book out the day after tomorrow. This is it, this is the fanfare.
To be fair it's a re-release rather than a brand new story, but I updated it and wrote a foreword and everything, and it's got a new cover.
It's called Too Close To Home. It's lovable.
To be fair it's a re-release rather than a brand new story, but I updated it and wrote a foreword and everything, and it's got a new cover.
It's called Too Close To Home. It's lovable.
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As someone who smoked for a year or two (not very much and long ago), I think the uptick in ADHD diagnoses over the last 25 years is largely because when cigarettes were in vogue, chainsmoking was a decent way to self-med for it. Sure it kills you, but raw ADHD feels like your skeleton wants out.
March 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
As someone who smoked for a year or two (not very much and long ago), I think the uptick in ADHD diagnoses over the last 25 years is largely because when cigarettes were in vogue, chainsmoking was a decent way to self-med for it. Sure it kills you, but raw ADHD feels like your skeleton wants out.
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This report should break something in all of us.
15,613 children.
The first 27 pages of the report list children whose ages are 0.
26% were under the age of 5
15,613 children.
The first 27 pages of the report list children whose ages are 0.
26% were under the age of 5
March 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This report should break something in all of us.
15,613 children.
The first 27 pages of the report list children whose ages are 0.
26% were under the age of 5
15,613 children.
The first 27 pages of the report list children whose ages are 0.
26% were under the age of 5
Look at this gorgeous beast. Out next Thursday thanks to @andersenpress.bsky.social - in time for almost all of Autism Acceptance Month. The cover is extremely pleasing and you should judge the book by it.
March 28, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Look at this gorgeous beast. Out next Thursday thanks to @andersenpress.bsky.social - in time for almost all of Autism Acceptance Month. The cover is extremely pleasing and you should judge the book by it.
*Who's* got a book being rereleased in a brand new edition with a beautiful sophisticated new cover a week today? What? ME? www.andersenpress.co.uk/books/too-cl...
Too Close to Home - Andersen Press
www.andersenpress.co.uk
March 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
*Who's* got a book being rereleased in a brand new edition with a beautiful sophisticated new cover a week today? What? ME? www.andersenpress.co.uk/books/too-cl...
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The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
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Her name is Rumeysa Ozturk, she's a student from Turkey, and even her lawyer doesn't know where she is right now.
Ozturk's attorney tells me they still have no idea where she is. ICE says only that she is in the agency's custody. www.salon.com/2025/03/26/d...
March 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Her name is Rumeysa Ozturk, she's a student from Turkey, and even her lawyer doesn't know where she is right now.
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We're taking the difficult, grown up decision, to steal literal children's lunch money rather than tax wealth.
Labour have leaked they might scrap free school meals for infants & free period products for girls in schools
Yes Lab might be suggesting these things to make what they actually do more palatable, but if thats the case is this fearmongering the grown up politics we were promised
Yes Lab might be suggesting these things to make what they actually do more palatable, but if thats the case is this fearmongering the grown up politics we were promised
March 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
We're taking the difficult, grown up decision, to steal literal children's lunch money rather than tax wealth.