Gavin Bell

ADHD and autism often overlap but services treat them as totally separate.

Two referrals. Two assessments. Two costs. Two waiting lists.

It’s inefficient and unfair. A combined pathway would reflect reality, cut duplication, and speed up support.

📅 Part of ADHD Awareness Month. Day 6 of 31

Creating Dagur from the How To Train Your Dragon tv series My next character will be Dagur from the how to train your dragon tv series. I loved watching the programmes with my son Max, when he was younger. We both went to see the live action remake of the …

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Write up on how I’ll create the costume for Dagur, covers 1960s Hollywood, medieval dyes and axe design

Getting in early on the comic-con crunch

My ADHD Diagnosis and why I needed laser surgery on my eyes A few years ago, pre-Covid, I did a quick screener for ADHD. I got quite a high score and I considered getting an assessment. However, we’d just moved house, I changed jobs later that year an…

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ADHD care in the UK is a postcode lottery.

Different rules. Long waits. Services that don’t talk to each other.

We’re mapping all this, starting with lived experience.

If you’ve been through ADHD assessment, diagnosis or treatment, your story matters.

No personal info, just what happened.

The costumes are just stunning, alongside the 70s rock vibes

Also would have been 100% there for GOAT

Fourtet on Friday at Glastonbury were just astonishing, not there, just watching BBC

Loving the led lit jellyfish in the overmono audience at Glastonbury, overmono are fantastic

One eye zapped, next one in a few weeks
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Waiting for a peripheral iridotemy in my left eye. They going to cut a tiny hole in my iris to reduce pressure in my eyes and alleviate any potential glaucoma from the narrow / occluded drainage angles. This also opens up a range of medicines for ADHD

Unexpected laser eye surgery was yesterday’s surprise. Vitreous detachment led to slight pull on retina. Hopefully all fixed now. Odd experience being zapped in the eye with a bright green laser about 60 times.

Vesper martinis are amazing, bought some lillet blanc and made one, delicious

Happy new year

Five years on in this new house and we have birdsong in the garden everyday

Shock is probably right. Real life is not like a film. No retakes and no script writer to bring your ideas too for that smooth escape plan

Maybe in this case the “event horizon” curtain was too bright to allow him to see beyond clearly enough to plan properly

Absolutely, I used to talk a lot about how launching a product was like running a restaurant “launching/opening” isn’t even half-way

Mural is driving me mad, it’s handling of pasted text and lack of frames is just odd

#proofofgig khruangbin

At khruangbinin in Hammersmith

Our tabby cat Evie sitting on our kitchen table

#proofofcat five years with this lovely cat in our lives and nearly 600 photos taken

Learning to make documentary films via #artofdocumentary

Waking up my Bluesky profile, now twitter is in flames