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Caroline @Ka81
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Data Scientist, Award Winning Teacher, Maker, PhD Researcher 📚 #Tes #Edtech50 #Bima100 #Judge #Crafting edu/tech narrative.
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Since you all love #Oddsock. He has a statement.

"My human is at risk in UK only because she's autistic. Here we lock up autistic kids & adults for decades for no reason - 2500 of them right now & we do nothing about it. No dog should lose their humans this way. This is what should be trending"
Hey Daisy,

I'd really like to tell you all about my special interests at length. Do you enjoy Xmas? #AutisticDogFlirt

Yours #Oddsock 🎄
December 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Heads up if your continously making this face ⬇️ so much you get a wrinkle in your 20s as demonstrated here. Maybe it wasn't maybelline you needed...
maybe it's a #AuDHD diagnosis. 👍
December 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Reposted by Caroline @Ka81
A talk I gave earlier this year has, unfortunately, become relevant again this week so I've published it here.
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
The Fascist Echo in Labour's "Over-diagnosis" Inquiry
Why Wes Steeting's new inquiry is about more than just renewed austerity
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Slowly working my way through hitchcock back catalogue and forgot how much I love Rear Window. ( I happen to have a side special interest in 1940-early 70s films, North by Northwest, Some like it hot, La Dolce Vita )
December 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Reposted by Caroline @Ka81
Text messages are great because it means if you have a dad he can keep you regularly updated on everything he's been up to.
December 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Pretty sure I'm doing the Christmas stuff all wrong. The tree looks unhappy. 🤣
December 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"Streeting has blustered about assessments “pathologising feelings”, apparently missing the fact that his GPs have long doled out antidepressants as a sticking plaster for everything from grief to menopause."

Oh thats a read ...⬇️

www.independent.co.uk/voices/wes-s...
Wes Streeting is punching down on young people with ADHD
The health secretary’s announcement of a review into ADHD and autism assessments is another example of his missing the point, writes Kat Brown. Post-Covid Britain is on its knees, and its young people...
www.independent.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Streeting’s “apology” = Tactical Stunt, convenient & performative Comes late.

Labour keeps reviews, courts stigma and then tries to pretend it didn't mean it. They let the stigma, outrage and welfare framing hit the news.. then say oops got that a bit wrong.
December 5, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Well well you don't say ... #ADHD #Autism Streeting posting on x "sometimes he doesn't get it right and not afraid to say so" ...

Is it mostly stuff reform would like you keep 'not getting right'?

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
December 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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New preprint! @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence"

Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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December 2, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Oddsock & friends want to highlight the NHS ADHD Taskforce lead by Professor Anita Thapar Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (along with about 50 other experts) said in Nov ⬇️

"In England, there is consistent evidence that ADHD is under-recognised, under-diagnosed and under-treated"
December 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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In today's episode of #MakerAdvent I bring an old Yupiteru MVT-7100 radio scanner into the 21st century with a new USB C power board. I've owned this scanner for over 30 years!
youtu.be/YTDFEipCxGk
December 4, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Hey if your #neurodivergent #ADHD #Autistic today.

Not scared to be strong ⬇️

youtu.be/z9BPMjL44Aw?...
Coldplay & Big Sean - Miracles (Someone Special) - Official Lyric Video
YouTube video by Coldplay
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
They do know autism and adhd aren't mental health conditions don't they ? Don't they ?
a woman wearing a headband is standing in front of stairs .
Alt: a woman wearing a headband is standing in front of stairs .
media.tenor.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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This just seems like the wrong end of the telescope to me. Review should be into barriers to employment, not diagnosis.

I really *do* have a fine motor condition, but in the 21st century this poses absolutely no barrier to me working in 90 per cent of jobs in the UK.
Wes Streeting orders review of mental health diagnoses as benefit claims soar
Wes Streeting orders review of mental health diagnoses as benefit claims soar
Health secretary has asked experts to investigate whether normal feelings have become ‘over-pathologised’ The health secretary, Wes Streeting, has ordered a clinical review of the diagnosis of mental health conditions, according to reports. Streeting is understood to be concerned about a sharp rise in the number of people making sickness benefits claims because of diagnoses for mental illness, autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the Times reported. He has asked leading experts to investigate whether normal feelings have become “over-pathologised”, the newspaper said, as he seeks to grapple with the 4.4 million working-age people now claiming sickness or incapacity benefit. The figure has risen by 1.2 million since 2019, while the number of 16 to 34-year-olds off work with long-term sickness because of a mental health condition is said to have grown rapidly in the same period. Streeting told the Times he knew from “personal experience how devastating it can be for people who face poor mental health, have ADHD or autism and can’t get a diagnosis or the right support”. He added: “I also know, from speaking to clinicians, how the diagnosis of these conditions is sharply rising. “We must look at this through a strictly clinical lens to get an evidence-based understanding of what we know, what we don’t know, and what these patterns tell us about our mental health system, autism and ADHD services. “That’s the only way we can ensure everyone gets timely access to accurate diagnosis and effective support.” The review, which is expected to be launched on Thursday, is set to be led by Prof Peter Fonagy, a clinical psychologist at University College London specialising in child mental health, with Sir Simon Wessely, a former president of the Royal College of Psychiatry, acting as vice-chair. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Re: Streeting’s announcement of a review into “over diagnosis” of “mental health, Aitism and ADHD” I’ve sent an email to the minister cc’d to the lords autism act select committee: posted 2 screen shots but all text in Alt text - feel free to use as inspiration if it helps you to draft your own 1/3
December 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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"ADHD diagnosis rates: We showed that in England, there is consistent evidence that ADHD is under-recognised, under-diagnosed and under-treated (including with medication)."

NHS England, November 2025
Like this one they only just completed. @danielsohege.bsky.social bang on here I'm not holding my breath either. It's a weird thing do after a full scale report says there is no issue with overdiagnosis in the UK. ⬇️

www.england.nhs.uk/publication/...
December 4, 2025 at 9:29 AM
#Streeting trying to win over someone with incorrect ideas on ADHD being over diagnosised. Next will autism despite both independent reviews from the NHS itself come out THIS MONTH with over 100 leading specialists saying neither are overdiagnosed...

www.england.nhs.uk/publication/...
NHS England » Report of the independent ADHD Taskforce
NHS England » Report of the independent ADHD Taskforce
www.england.nhs.uk
December 4, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Like this one they only just completed. @danielsohege.bsky.social bang on here I'm not holding my breath either. It's a weird thing do after a full scale report says there is no issue with overdiagnosis in the UK. ⬇️

www.england.nhs.uk/publication/...
December 4, 2025 at 8:43 AM
#EDS #Pots notice...

Check your D3 and Ferritin Levels.

Iron deficiency without anemia in EDS is basically already anemia. Doctors may miss it because they focus on hemoglobin, but iron stores can be dangerously low even when hemoglobin looks normal....

FfS 🙄
December 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Reposted by Caroline @Ka81
This manuscript is the culmination of years of discussions and work on how projects that aspire to do participatory research with autistic people can truly be inclusive and neurodiversity-affirming, reflecting our experiences on two initiatives. Nothing About Us Without Us!
New preprint alert! Drawing from our experiences and observations on two initiatives with participatory aspirations, we have identified challenges, strategies, and recommendations for better and neurodiversity-affirming autism research. 10.13140/RG.2.2.27146.12481 1/
December 3, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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New preprint alert! Drawing from our experiences and observations on two initiatives with participatory aspirations, we have identified challenges, strategies, and recommendations for better and neurodiversity-affirming autism research. 10.13140/RG.2.2.27146.12481 1/
December 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Reposted by Caroline @Ka81
Sounds like a really useful piece of research!

I couldn't get the doi string to work (why no URL?) but it looks like the paper is here:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Participatory Approaches to Neurodiversity-Affirming Research: Challenges, Strategies, and Recommendations for Conducting Better and More Intersectional Work
PDF | Participatory research with Autistic collaborators uses democratic decision-making to maximize the collaboration of Autistic people throughout the... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...
www.researchgate.net
December 3, 2025 at 4:58 AM