@TheBreadmonkey It's amazing how many arseholes , who couldn't apply an elastoplast, are "experts" on neurological disorders. Docs have diagnosed you and they know what they are talking about, the rest couldn't find their own arses with both hands and a map, (they're constantly talking out of it and now think it's their mouth).
You're weird and wonderful and lots of fun, which is why thousands of us follow you.

@TheBreadmonkey It's always horrific being today's main character in UK politics. So often it feels like the subjects and the objects of politics are totally separate groups, the sort of problem that democracy was meant to fix.

Whatever the papers say or don't, you are sitting there inside your own self and plenty of people on here and elsewhere think that's pretty good.

(I've been thinking about diagnosis or not, I'm currently just being weird on an unofficial basis only)

@TheBreadmonkey During the Tory party conference, some shadow twat made comments about Motability cars and ADHD. There's a really interesting report on this programme from 08:00 on this. From 11:33 they talk about the actual stats and take apart the same bollox Streeting was spouting: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0m8l4c2?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
Very enlightening.

@TheBreadmonkey Thank you for speaking out. There are lots of people in similar situations and this is partly the issue. How many people have been diagnosed with depression, etc for years, but actually have AuDHD? Yet, diagnosis is difficult with waiting lists for assessment many years long, if the service exists at all. And diagnosis does not equal unemployment and sickness benefits if employers are supportive - target employers not those affected.

@TheBreadmonkey Hi, fellow AuDHD here. You're not broken. You have a brain that works differently than the system we're forced to live in can adequately deal with. (Or is willing to, because accommodations are for them, not for us, at least not long-term.)

I'm so sorry that you're dealing with invalidation both personally and in a wider social sphere. I know it's frustrating and more than that, I know how much it hurts.

If I can gently suggest trying to find AuDHD groups to touch base with once in a while, it might help you feel less mentally isolated (because that's the aim, I think - to make us feel like what we have isn't real and to burn ourselves out trying to fit into a mould that will break us).

I know I can't do anything about the wider social issue, or about the people in your personal life that are, to be blunt, rude as fuck about your lived experience... But I can extend a "hey, you're not alone in this, your diagnosis and needs are valid, and while we may never be friends, I'd like to be friendly with you" hand.

Again, I'm so sorry you're dealing with this with such a new diagnosis. If it were 20 years on, it'd be a lot easier (I can say this from personal experience), but since you're still probably unraveling the "what's me, what's autism, what's ADHD" at times, you're getting a one-two punch at a really hard time.

@TheBreadmonkey You and me and our AuDHD sibs everywhere, we’re slices of fried gold, brother. 🫂
Shut-up-Wesley isn’t a worth a fart. 💨

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You know what you know. It’s been your truth all this time, however buried it may have been at times. No one can take that away from you.

And if others can’t see it, that’s theirs. 💛

@TheBreadmonkey Fuck them, you don't need them. Scientists and doctors around the world have agreed on that diagnosis, and I don't know why this grifting cockwomble of a secretary should get to dictate how you feel.

Are you wired weird? You and me both, brother (although I'm probably "just" ADHD). But thanks to that diagnosis, we know where to look, whom to talk to in the wide world for advice, for understanding. We can make life good *for ourselves.*

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My dear Ben. 🫂

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You are who you fought so hard to find. Do not lose that again because some other idiot is talking about something they know nothing about - You.