Somnambulist System

Contrary to media hysteria, it is not cheating to seek help to navigate what’s an incredibly complex and often inaccurate benefit assessment. You’re not gaming the system - you’re surviving it.

If you’re applying for PIP, the charity Turn2Us has launched The PIP Tool: a free guide to navigate the benefits process.

Their goal “is to make sure you know your rights and can afford what you need to enjoy life fully.”

Share widely! pip.turn2us.org.uk

A bar chart titled “Number of low-income households in hardship, May 2022 – October 2024” displays data from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) cost of living tracker survey conducted by Savanta. The chart is divided into three categories: 1. Going without essentials: Both May 2024 and October 2024 show 7 million low-income households struggling without basic necessities. 2. Including food insecurity: Both May 2024 and October 2024 report 5.4 million low-income households experiencing food insecurity. 3. In arrears: Both May 2024 and October 2024 show 4.3 million households in arrears. The visual demonstrates consistent hardship levels across the reported periods.

New figures from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation:

- 7 million families are going without essentials, including 5.4 million without enough food.
- 86% of those on Universal Credit, and 93% of those with UC deductions, are affected.

Overgenerous benefits, #Dispatches?

Close up of Charlie talking in her home office, with captions.

We can be both disabled by AND enabled by neuro-differences.

Disability and giftedness are not mutually exclusive, as I explain in this short video.

#IDPD #InternationalDayOfPersonsWithDisabilities #Disability #Neurodiversity #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #AuDHD

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Our UK peer support group, a non clinical, confidential, compassionate space to talk about our exps and relationship to suicide will meet on zoom:

15th Dec 3-4:30pm UK time
29th Dec 3-4:30pm UK time.

& have social hangouts on

Christmas Day 25th Dec at 11:30 am
Boxing day Dec 26th at 7:30 pm

Yes please, sign me up

Same. Not quite as quick on the uptake as you, but glad I found the new good place... and it seems all the good people are here

Man-children with too much money and fragile egos happened.

The sheer volume of people abandoning X now gives me some small hope for humanity... It's good to reconnect, mate! ☺️

Oh, and make sure you eat carbs and hydrate beforehand 😉

Best of luck!🤞🏻🎓

You know your work best. Just try to keep that in mind.

I've never been much of a planner as an ADHDer, but we did focus our prep around the more thorny academic stuff - theoretical frameworks & methodologies.

Our fields are very different, but I think this is a universally applicable strategy! 👍🏻

This, OMG. This is exactly how we got to middle age without *knowing* we were a We!

Hello! Nice to see you here, pls add us too 😁

I've made a Starter Pack for UK-based people with dissociative identity disorder (& OSDD).

Please let me know if you'd like to be added!

#DID #OSDD #dissociativeidentitydisorder

go.bsky.app/A6e1HZc

@luckyerica3.bsky.social Hey! We're here, we found you 😊 Happy reconnection!

Hello! We joined the mass migration 😊 Please + so we can find our old #dissociatwt connections 💕

Happy birthday! And happy to have found you here 😊 💕