Ruth Stanway Woodings

Elon Musk x @elonmusk Subscribe Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!

As 'gotchas' go, "I willingly supported someone I knew was involved in major child trafficking crimes but actively kept it under wraps until now" is... an atypical approach, I'll say that much

More support for neurodivergent children in mainstream schools Around 300,000 children across 1,200 primary schools to benefit from earlier and better neurodiversity support.

Neurodiversity training in schools is being expanded for a year to reach an extra 1,200 schools. An extra £9.5 million has been earmarked for the PINS (Partnership for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools) programme. What's your experience of this? www.gov.uk/government/news/m...

An unexpected blessing of my autistic kids is that I never had to spend more than 2 minutes in one of those hell holes!

Boy identifies destination for the day. (Insert witty observation about AR process here)

Lots queuing for books afterwards. Hope you enjoyed it

Me and the cat's ass

Wow. Nope, did not see that coming!

We're women so we're gaslighted over it by the medical profession for decades.

Congratulations?

(mustering executive function) BRAIN: sorry, best we can do is an abandoned to do list under your unread mail on the kitchen counter

Image reads Save 20% Use code 25SME2 at Routledge.com valid until 31st July. Shows book cover of What Can We Do When School's Not Working, by Abigail Fisher and Naomi Fisher, illustrated by Eliza Fricker. Image on cover shows a girl looking sad, with various post it note labels pinned to her saying things like: skiving, anxious, defiant, truant

I review books for Routledge, usually saying "this is nice, this bit needs changing", when this one came across my desk I wrote that they should print it on billboards & stick it up in the street.
#autismawareness #autismacceptance #autismawarenessmonth #AutismAcceptanceMonth

My brain: "The name of this guy we just met and are still talking to? Sorry, wasn't listening. And if you ask him again I'll trigger weapons-grade embarassmemt"

Also my brain: "You know the music from level one of the 1990 Donald Duck Mega Drive game 'Quackshot'? That's today's soundtrack. Enjoy!"

It's often accompanied by "but it's not inconveniencing anyone" and other comments of that ilk. Then I'm "being difficult " when I insist that self-loathing is actually pretty inconvenient, long term. Sometimes sufficiently inconvenient as to be fatal, as it turns out.

I suspect this may not be insufferable.

Apology accepted. *rolls eyes, tuts, mutters about what a show off you are....

Lovely weekend of friendship, engineering, composition, philosophy, art history, singing and silly games with 40 teens. Colleagues not too bad either.

You have a stronger stomach than me, even your photos make me queasy!

Workshy overpampered teens up hours before breakfast so they can tidy their rooms and fit in extra social time before classes. On a Sunday. This is the sight that greeted me when I came out of my room at 8. (Bah, grumble, mutter, if they can do that, they can stop all this ebsa fakery...)

Friday evening hammock read

Neurodivergent people have always been there (we just weren't 'looking' before) Many believe neurodivergence (autism, ADHD etc.) is 'new'. But it's been around and has shaped society for as long as humans have existed. We just didn't recognise it for what it was.

Neurodivergent people have always been there (we just weren't 'looking' before)

theneuroscienceofeve...

The idea that the neurodiversity is a 'recent development' and hasn't been shaping all of human society forever is as wrong as it is unhelpful

My latest post explains

#ND #Autism #ADHD

Start by thinking about your kid's interests and what environment they're comfy in

And that throwing star is too big to be practical on a utility belt

Durham, criminology, especially gender based violence

It's got a post it on front cover from jenny in the office showing how late it was handed in - which my baby in her third year is enjoying v much!

@danrebellato.bsky.social is this your handwriting??

I realise that's likely your bag, but it really looks like you've acquired a dog

Hmmm sounds delicious!

Which of the "many things" are you today?

Trying not to lose my shit with the printer 😤