#ASD #SMI #DCD #mentalhealth #2e #aphantasia #FBPE #genealogy #genetic__genealogy #Calne 'socially drifted ex public schoolboy'
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Tim Gatty retweeted
The UK does not have a welfare crisis. It does, instead, have politicians who want to scapegoat the most vulnerable people in our society. Unscrupulous neoliberal politicians and commentators are our problem. Those in need are not. youtu.be/C89jDlwF1vs?si=LMYt…
Tim Gatty retweeted
PIP recipients report a huge variety of conditions, and most have multiple conditions.
While three-in-ten (31 per cent) report having depression, just 2 per cent of all PIP recipients report depression as their only condition.
Only one per cent (or less) report having only anxiety or ADHD.
ALT chart showing Proportion of PIP recipients aged 16-64 who report the top ten most common conditions: England and Wales, May-June 2026
Tim Gatty retweeted
The full bingo of disability and mentalist slurs, from someone who "cares" about disabled people acceptable to him.
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Tim Gatty retweeted
I must say I’m very disappointed in the police over their dealing with the RAF Fairford incident. By announcing that the suspects are British nationals, they have completely undermined the stream of made up bollocks from myself and every other right wing gobshite on Twitter.
Tim Gatty retweeted
Are we diagnosing too many people with ADHD? spectator.com/article/are-we… Wrong question. There shouldn't be 'an ADHD assessment' or related but a more holistic 'neurodevelopmental assessment' covering lots of different potential conditions. See the ICD-11 'boundary' data for ideas.
Tim Gatty retweeted
History has shown us again and again that disabled people are one of the first groups that fascist movements go after, and yet a disturbing number of self proclaimed 'anti-fascists' fail at the very first hurdle of listening to and standing in solidarity with disabled people.
Tim Gatty retweeted
Arsonist complains about house burning down.
Tim Gatty retweeted
The same old policies, no changes since Thatcher, attack those who can least afford it but preserve the status of the filthy rich.
Tim Gatty retweeted
“People are asking it” cannot be the end of the journalistic test. People ask questions based on misinformation and prejudice too. A broadcaster’s job isn’t merely to amplify the loudest premise, but to interrogate whether it is true, proportionate before turning it into a hook.
Whether you like it or not, those are questions that many Brits are asking. Whether you agree with the answers - or even prefer the questions weren’t asked in the first place - is beside the point. The role of debate shows is to air topical questions and host balanced debates, which JV does brilliantly.
Tim Gatty retweeted
@theJeremyVine you’ve cited £3tn national debt and £1bn borrowing when answering concerns about #disability/welfare coverage. What proportion of either is disability benefits? Without that context, huge national figures risk implying a connection they don’t establish.
Tim Gatty retweeted
Undiagnosed autism:
"if you were autistic or something I wouldn't blame you!"
Diagnosed autism:
"Stop using autism as an excuse. You're an insult to real disabled people"
Tim Gatty retweeted
The media really hasn’t learned a thing from the Jeremy Vine episode, and their latest circling of the wagons proves it. They’re still tone deaf to why unpaid carers and disabled people were upset in the first place.
They keep framing it as “online outrage” or a “backlash,” instead of acknowledging the real issue: Vine’s programme has repeatedly platformed harmful narratives about disability benefits and carers. People weren’t angry for sport, they were responding to years of being misrepresented, dismissed, and treated as debate fodder.
And even after Vine stepped down, the coverage centred his feelings, his impartiality, his sadness. Carers’ concerns were treated like a footnote.
This is exactly the problem. The media reports the event, but refuses to report the reason. It hears noise, not meaning. It still doesn’t understand, or doesn’t want to understand, the harm its narratives cause.
Unpaid carers and disabled people deserve better than this. They deserve to be listened to, not caricatured.
#UnpaidCarers #DisabledRights #MediaAccountability #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs