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Maxine Roper

@maxinefrances.bsky.social

Writer 📚 Voiceover & Audiobooks 🎙️ NO HEELS, NO PROBLEM: A Neurodivergent Survival Guide To Adult Life When You’re Dyspraxic or ADHD - out now. WORDS FOR OCCASIONS: 🆕 wordsforoccasions.etsy.com https://maxinefrancesroper.co.uk 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇪🇺

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Maxine Roper@maxinefrances.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hi BlueSky: Are there any good alternatives to Spotify which offer music AND audiobooks? (I keep falling asleep without the sleep timer on and burning through my whole audiobook allowance. Their solution is “Just pay us more money to keep replaying the same book…” 🙄)

tinymattresses@tinymattresses.bsky.social · 2w ago

I got a diagnosis while it was still shameful and secret and I will tell you getting that diagnosis probably saved my life. I couldn't understand why the world seemed to make sense to everyone else. Knowing I was working from a different rulebook gave me patience to learn what I needed to thrive.

Scuzzy Mortspider 🕷️ 🎃@jussienorthside.bsky.social · 2w ago

Janice Turner has no background or training in medicine, neuroscience, psychology or psychiatry.

Janice Turner: Is your ADHD diagnosis really helping you? A huge increase in those claiming the condition as well as receiving Pip to cope with it risks creating a lost generation
Georgia Harper@mindtheflap.bsky.social · 4w ago

With the final report of the autism, ADHD and mental health review expected soon, here's a reminder of what their interim report actually said. We, as a community, helped bury this by giving all our attention to a misleading Times headline on publication day instead. Let's not do that again.

Rosie (she/her)@airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

In others, notably ADHD and autism, rising diagnoses and referrals appear to exceed changes in underlying epidemiological prevalence and are likely to reflect a combination of: improved recognition changing help-seeking behaviour institutional incentives pressures within existing service pathways Across both ADHD and autism, best currently available population-based estimates remain relatively stable, while administrative diagnoses, self-identification and recorded service demand have increased substantially. In autism, the evidence also points to particularly rapid growth in identified need within educational systems, including increasing identification among girls and among young people without learning disability.
Maxine Roper@maxinefrances.bsky.social · last mo.

Bangs Balloons (yes, this made children’s parties tricky…) Any random noisy electric appliance An imaginary rabbit Carbon Monoxide poisoning 999 (the TV show)

Gina@brokenbiros.bsky.social · last mo.

Things I was frightened of as a child: Spontaneous combustion Fires generally Ghosts generally Church bells moving (this lingers) Death generally Appendicitis and meningitis Watership Down Black Rabbit Telly blowing up during thunderstorm Quicksand

Maxine Roper@maxinefrances.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 If you’re suddenly thinking about something or someone a lot, or going over something long put to bed, it might just be because they were one of the biggest things in your head at the time of 9/11. Thank you and good evening.

Maxine Roper@maxinefrances.bsky.social · last mo.

If this article was written in good faith, it would a) Actually contain quantifiable evidence of this happening and b) Also mention that many people who are now diagnosed with ADHD were incompletely or inaccurately diagnosed with something else before that. It isn’t, so it doesn’t.

Screenshot of a headline “Why experts believe that many patients told they have ADHD may actually be suffering from other undiagnosed conditions.”