Chris Connor
@cdconnor.bsky.social
Autistic, Dyslexic, and Neurodivergent. Disability Rights and Housing. Genderfluid, pronoun pliable.
Manufacturing a culture war against neurodivergent rights is a attack on hard fought gains. The medical, media and political classes propagating ancient and modern myths about neurodivergence is so boring. So what is next, resurrecting Bettelheim's bullshit?!
YouGov@yougov.co.uk · last mo.With much media coverage of a government report that ADHD and autism are being over-diagnosed, a claim which some experts have disputed, half of Britons now believe that the conditions are being over-diagnosed Over-diagnosed: 50% Under-diagnosed: 17% About right: 17% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...
Tuesday's front page: 'ADHD not being overdiagnosed in the UK, major study set to find' Read the full story: trib.al/jcv7bYn #TomorrowsPapersToday
My autism can't stand it when people used autism as if it makes you any better than others..... We all have our % of awful people, being ND doesn't excuse anything and we are capable of being proper idiots and awful as demonstrated here....
James O’Brien@mrjamesob.bsky.social · 7mo agoNothing says “I cannot cope with lying politicians” like backing, er, Nigel Farage and, um… ‘In 2022, Delo pleaded guilty to a United States Bank Secrecy Act violation and received a 30-month probation sentence. In 2025, Delo was pardoned by President Donald Trump.’
Finding it hilarious a very privileged middle class, cambridge educated journalist who wrote about disabled women adopting "sickinflencer" identities to be 'cool'. Regularly cosplays as working class to aggressively mock left-wing student activists as the "real" pampered elite.
The backdrop to the horrific scenes in Dover and Portsmouth is Reform encouraging fear and division and the Home Office helping with hostile policies. So now we have massed fascists dressed in black on our streets. The Govt must name hard right fascism and then stand up to it.
Not a silver bullet, but a good touch point when thinking critically about how certain voters are portrayed by political leaders & the media, relative to the views they hold. & why chastising swathes of people without meaningful discussion only serves the powerful www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
Majority of Tory and Reform voters do not back cuts to disability benefits, survey finds
Nearly half of respondents say spending on personal independence payments should be increased
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Oops, I seem to have been caught red handed taking illegal foreign donations and being a corrupt sack of shit.
Very grateful & very proud to be a part of 𝐁𝐄𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐇𝐄𝐔𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐍, Siân Heder’s new film about Judy Heumann & her fellow disability activists. Select cinemas Nov 6.
RFK Jr. discussing autism conspiracy theories while his phone goes off with a literal quack ringtone. 😂😂😂 youtube.com/shorts/dQpJA...
RFK Jr.'s duck quack ringtone interupted his autism speech
YouTube video by TMZ
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Truth be known there had been pockets of anti neurodiversity organising over the last decade, with the Overton window moving to the right. Future waves will be more bolder and coordinated with working with other hate groups.
Small Robots@smolrobots.bsky.social · 3mo agoLooking forward to the next decade or so of "neurology critical" becoming a thing.
If a government's first duty is to defend its people from attack, why isn't ours defending those in the UK who live in fear of attack because of their race, sexual orientation, or neurodivergence? youtu.be/IB7eS-K-IvU?...
Who will defend people in the UK from the politics of fear?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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£100 to eat with 30p Lee, no thanks! www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/2645611...
Reform UK supporters invited to spend £100 on dinner with Lee Anderson
Supporters of the insurgent right wing party Reform UK in Lancashire have been given the chance to drop £100 on dinner with a well-known firebrand,…
lancashiretelegraph.co.uk
Give me strength, an old orange fart writing something in crayon doesn't make it a scientific fact!
Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 3mo ago
Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” No doubt it will be advised by or feature familiar names, looking for evidence to support the conclusions they’ve already jumped to, coincidentally supporting the removal of government support.
If only Thatcher had bothered to ring FIFA after Gazza got that second yellow at Italia 90!
9 Years After Grenfell: 72 Dead. 0 Jailed. The System Worked Exactly As Planned
9 Years After Grenfell: 72 Dead. 0 Jailed. The System Worked Exactly As Planned
Whistleblower Terry Edge & campaigner Karim Mussilhy expose the calculated web of corporate immunity & state negligence
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Fuck FIFA and Trump Not Watching The Epstein Cup. La coupe du chaos, non merci!
This is Ryker. It's impossible to be sure, but we think she might want some breakfast. 12/10 (TT: rykertheiggy)
@greenpartyhan.bsky.social calls on the Prime Minister to cut VAT rates for hospitality during today's PMQs.
"Mencap, Mind and the National Autistic Society warn could lead to “the biggest rollback of disability rights in a generation”." This is all deeply worrying especially in context of so much care now provided by private for profit companies rather than safe, appropriate and compassion driven care.
Natalie Bennett@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 5mo agoCharities Mencap, Mind and the National Autistic Society warn this could lead to “the biggest rollback of disability rights in a generation”. I am questioning the government on how it plans to respond nataliebennett.org/2026/06/03/d...
If you cared about pride you’d throw Wes Streeting in prison for killing 18 trans kids
Is AI just selling our own work back to us? youtu.be/oKzNqacehQQ?...
Is AI selling our own work back to us?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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Palantir are able to embrace employing neurodivergents because neoliberal neurodiversity inclusion logic fits neatly with their far right techno-feudalist politics. This is the same productivist inclusion logic being embraced in most big businesses (universities, banks, etc.).
Interesting fact, all thought Andy Burnham's political career. Everton FC has won fuck all!!