4/The Govt should roll out health checks for autistic people across the NHS and reinstate the target to increase the number of health checks for people with a learning disability.

Misses a trick here. No GP-blame.

That’s lovely. And so glad you’ve got it out of the way.

Related: I feel like a lot of the piracy vs buying discourse (🤢 that this is even a thing) gets framed as stealing money from individual authors vs. stealing from faceless corporate publishers when for most authors it’s about whether or not they’ll get to publish another book.

There's a pretty great Tumblr post about this:

And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.

Admin are continually pressuring us to make the course "more accessible," by which they mean "devastatingly easy to complete," but it's not about access. Many students refuse to read or write in any capacity that isn't tech-aided, no matter how simple the assignment, no matter how process-based.

But if today’s rules had existed back then, temporary status, conditional belonging, reviews hanging over your head like storm clouds, none of this would’ve happened.

You can’t build a future on a fault line.

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And because of that chance, I’m now a British citizen, an emergency medicine consultant, a husband, and a father of four.

My whole life, my real life, unfolded here. This is home, heart and bone.

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