@bethanreesnd.bsky.social
🌻 Autistic & ADHD 🌻 MA Creative Writer 🌻 Policy & Comms @ldwales 🌻 Writing featured in @mslexia Happiful @the-independent @bbccymruwales 🌻Writing creatively about my neurodivergence both in work & life. All views my own (& my Westie’s)🐶
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‘Overdiagnosis’: The media’s vilification of different minds - @bethanreesnd.bsky.social
Dyma flog sydd yn trafod penawdau diweddar sy'n honni bod yna 'orddiagnosis' o niwroamrywiaeth:
Read the blog on Inclusive Journalism Cymru's channel now:
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Ah diolch yn fawr iawn for sharing my article :) it’s very much appreciated!
28.05.2025 21:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
After pretty awful headlines, wrong assumptions & making #neurodivergent people and those living with #mentalhealth conditions feel like they don't matter, I needed to write this blog. Thank you so much #InclusiveJournalismCymru for letting me share this.
inclusivejournalism.cymru/blog/overdia...
A purple background with a cream lock icon. The white text reads "The latest NHS data shows there are at least 2,055 people with a learning disability and/or autism locked away in mental health hospitals."
A purple background with a cream text box. The white and purple text reads "Within January 2025, 8,300 reported uses of restrictive interventions in one month e.g. physical, chemical, mechanical restraint and being kept in isolation. Of these, 2,680 were against children (under 18s).
A purple background with a cream text box. The white and purple text reads "Children in units. The number of children with a learning disability and/or autism in mental health hospitals is 225."
A purple background with a cream text box. The white and purple text reads "Shut away for too long. The average length of stay for people with a learning disability and/or autism who are currently in mental health hospitals is 4.6 years."
1/4 🚨 As Baroness Hollins said in the Parliament debate on the Mental Health Act Bill, there are still over 2,000 people with a learning disability and/or autism in mental health hospitals.
#HomesNotHospitals #MentalHealthActReform
Can’t believe I’ve been @ldwales.bsky.social for a month already! I’ve been lucky enough to go out with the amazing team and see the incredible work they do 🥰 thank you all for making me feel so welcome!
27.03.2025 11:55 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Disability benefit cuts will cause widespread hardship, no questions asked
Quick thread 🧵 on the impact of cuts on why the govt needs to properly consult - or see the full post at:
medium.com/@craig.berry...
That cartoon was horrific & I can’t believe they got away with it. It just shows the lack of respect in the media for neurodiversity!
27.03.2025 11:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
News. Welfare cuts will hit over three million families and push 250,000 people into poverty, government analysis shows.
www.learningdisabilitytoday.co.uk/news/welfare...
People with a learning disability advised: Don’t forget to book your annual health check
21.03.2025 10:01 — 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
A recent report from Cerebra highlighted how disabled children and their families are being failed across all 3 nations due to the lack of good quality continence services. Find out more about what this means here: www.ldw.org.uk/inaccessible...
21.03.2025 09:52 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 01/ 📣Nearly, 200,000 people with a learning disability rely on PIP to support them with the unavoidable price of being disabled. These aren’t optional costs, and they won’t simply disappear because of cuts to PIP.
19.03.2025 18:00 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0If you've been affected or likely to be affected by the #DisabilityBenefits cuts proposed by @ukparliament.parliament.uk on Tuesday, the consultation on the Green Paper are open until 30 June (likely to be extended due to lack of easy read option).
20.03.2025 12:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 01/3 We know people with a learning disability are worried about what changes to disability benefits could mean for them.
Ismail Kaji, Parliamentary & Government Officer at Mencap, spoke to Andy Bell on 5 News.
UK Government’s £5bn benefits ‘crackdown’ will leave many disabled people in Wales considerably worse off without fundamentally tackling the systemic barriers to employment and independent living.
Once again disabled people have been cruelly let down. 1/2
Also great to see @senedd.wales #PetitionsCommittee discussing @ldwales.bsky.social #StolenLives petition to stop the detention of learning disabled and autistic children, young people & adults in hospitals. As a society, we should be providing care, not locking people away. #HomesNotHositals
10.03.2025 17:22 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Great to see the #AutismAct2009 being discussed @ukparliament.parliament.uk today. Thank you so much @tim-nicholls.bsky.social @autismallianceuk.bsky.social @autistica.org.uk @ambitiousautism.bsky.social for sharing just some of the challenges faced by #autistic people like me in society today 🙏
10.03.2025 17:12 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Chancellor’s latest announcement on welfare cuts feels like a gut punch.
Cutting benefits without addressing the root causes behind the increase in claimants - poor mental health, poor work conditions, and poverty - is short-sighted and dangerous.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 1/7
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Hi there, I'm Beth - a #neurodivergent creative writer & speaker from #Cardiff. I've spoken openly about my #mentalhealthmisdiagnosis since 2017 & more recently, my experiences as a late-diagnosed #autistic woman with #ADHD.
Talks about: #neurodiversityatwork, #femaleneurodivergence, #misdiagnosis
