i really hate this culture we’ve created with the idea that people with a platform “HAVE to speak on all issues” bcos now influencers and celebrities just rush to share any infographic with no understanding or context, when really it would be better for them to just say nothing
ellie middleton 🌻
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author of UNMASKED: the ultimate guide to adhd, autism & neurodivergence and How To Be You 📚 [email protected] 💌
- can safely say that, as a cis woman, i have never ever felt threatened by or unsafe around a trans women. i do, however, feel unsafe around men most days! hope this helps :)
- i hate winter it is so overstimulating you’re telling me that i am supposed to just be okay when i am claustrophobic in my coat and my tote bag won’t stay on my shoulder because of my puffer jacket and my bra strap is falling down my arm underneath and my glasses are steaming up
- i can not believe it is 2023 and i live in one of the supposed richest countries in the world and i am having to ration the medication that i need to function because there’s a national shortage which means i’m probably going to run out soon
- i’m in the airport and i just used the disabled access queue (which i am well within my rights to do as a multiply-disabled person) and had a middle-aged woman in the queue to the side tutting about it “not being fair”. i’d usually let comments like this go over my head but…
- friendly reminder to everybody including the BBC that the reason almost everybody who goes for a private adhd assessment comes away with a diagnosis is that you probably wouldn’t bother paying £500+ for an assessment for something you weren’t pretty certain you had
- my problem is that if i put things away in cupboards i forget they exist but if i keep things out on display i get overwhelmed by clutter
- Replying to @elliemiddstoday i was so so close to saying something and it really touched a nerve do you want to know what’s unfair??? living in a world where not a single thing or place has been designed with your needs in mind. having to constantly hide your needs in order to be safe and…
- friendly reminder that if you have a constant internal monologue screaming at you to just do the thing but you’re *physically unable to* then you’re not lazy and you maybe instead have adhd
- friendly reminder that if you have a constant internal monologue screaming at you to just do the thing but you’re *physically unable to* then you’re not lazy and you maybe instead have adhd
- Replying to @elliemiddsaccepted but then in doing so being accused of faking. living in a world where you spend every second of every day minimising yourself to be less inconvenient to the people around you but still being accused of attention seeking. living in a world where…
- Replying to @elliemiddsi’m TERRIBLY sorry that you had to wait longer than you would have liked to get through passport control, i really am. but i absolutely guarantee that if we want to talk about what’s “fair” then you have the better deal.
- what does it mean when you can easily walk 10,000+ steps a day but standing up in one place for 10 minutes makes you feel like you might actually pass out
- Replying to @elliemiddsANY tiny show of difference or need of assistance is seen as a burden or a piss take. living in a world where people who have absolutely no idea what it’s like to live in your body think you ‘just need to get on with it’. living in a world where you HAVE to just get on…

