Liz Herrieven

This SNAP issue in the USA is insane.

40 million Americans rely on these payments to afford FOOD!

12% of the population.

That's 1 in 8 people.

In food poverty.

In by far the largest economy on Earth.

And Reform wants all of this for the UK, coupled with the expressed aim to privatise our NHS.

Taking the Pathological Out of PDA: A Talk With Dr. Deb Budding On PDA: There are a lot of reasons someone would resist doing something, and it's often more complex than it appears on the surface.

Since it’s come up as a topic of interest in a class I’m teaching tomorrow I thought I’d repost this transcript on demand avoidance I did with my beloved colleagues at @thinkingautism.com a couple years ago

thinkingautismguide.com/2023/06/on-p...

YouTube video by Alkurhah Sensory Overload

A useful animated video, illustrating how everyday noises—ones non-autistic people may not notice—can overwhelm an autistic person, in some cases leading to bolting and meltdowns that uninformed people dismiss as "autistic behaviors." Please watch and share.

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Frontiers | Research by autistic researchers: an “insider’s view” into autism. The autistic way of being This paper introduces us to an increasingly popular understanding of autism, but as understood and experienced by Autistic people: the descriptive theory of ...

"Everyday life, from communication within social interaction and societal expectation, interoception experience, outer sensory experiences and those of Object Permanence impact differently upon Autistic people than they do for non-autistic people." -Wenn Lawson:

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Running Away: Autism and Elopement “Elopement” is a ridiculous term. Right up there with “differently abled,” IMHO. It’s running away. It’s wandering. Call it what it is!

"Anything your autistic child is doing that is annoying or distressing to you… is because something is annoying or distressing to them. You can take that as a personal slight, or you can take that as inspiration to make the environment better for your child."

thinkingautismguide.com/2019/04/runn...

YouTube video by Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust Makaton CPR video

Today is #RestartAHeart day! Hundreds of volunteers across Yorkshire are teaching thousands of school students #CPR

Here’s Defib Dave using #Makaton to show you how it’s done.

Anyone can learn CPR and save a life!

#YAS

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Functional neurological disorder Information about functional neurological disorder (FND), including the symptoms, causes, and treatments of this condition. For patients in Scotland.

2. Patients are often (still) being given the FND diagnosis when “no disease is found.”

This is not how it should be done.

FND needs to be diagnosed based on positive signs / clinical features that establish that FND is present.

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Because Donald Trump knows that the vaccines are safe and effective and that they save lives.

And he doesn’t want to die from COVID or the flu.

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The Trump administration’s approach to autism is tangled up with ableism, eugenics, and pronatalism “The current political establishment and their supporters have consistently pathologized difference,” particularly when it comes to autism, a professor of medicine writes.

"The often referenced moral test of the measure of a civilization being based on how it treats its most vulnerable members is not one that the United States would pass today." Shoumita Dasgupta on our ableist administration, @statnews.com:

www.statnews.com/2025/10/03/a... #autism #neurodiversity

Rural Resus tip no.2 from @emcrit.bsky.social at #SSEM25 - mechanical CPR is a game changer in human-resource-stretched environments

Rural Resus tip no.3 - establish good ongoing ALS in the Resus bay before taking ambulance handover #FOAMed #FOAMSky

Facing the Future - standards for children and young people in emergency care settings These standards outline how to deliver safe, high quality and integrated care for children and young people in Paediatric Emergency Departments in the UK. The 5th edition of the standards was publishe...

#EmergencyMedicine #Paediatrics

New emergency care standards for children and young people published today

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I don’t want to hear anything else about what we should or shouldn’t be putting in our bodies (Tylenol, artificial sweeteners, sugar, or fat) until something is done about the BULLETS being put into bodies

RCEMLearning logo in white. A picture of a doctor next to an ultrasound machine. Alt text: Ultrasound Mastery: A Guide to PoCUS Competency. Blog

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It's all fun and games until a cop handles a Tylenol gelcap with no gloves and within seconds their socks are bothering them.

the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists

calling autism a “tragedy” and saying that there should be fewer autistic people are eugenicist talking points. Everyone who opposes such views also needs to recognize the ways in which everyday ableism left the door wide open for a person like RFK Jr.

I’m autistic. Not because of Tylenol.
Not because of vaccines.
Not because of some headline.
I’m autistic because that’s how
my brain works. Stop treating us
like a problem. Start listening to us.

3/3) WW2 Nazis targeted those they felt to be less than normal. Trump & co don’t care about autistic people who can serve their needs (e.g. Musk). They want rid of those who need support from others & society - the vulnerable & dependent. This is big and terrifying and we can’t stay quiet about it.

2/3) There’s no link between parental actions and a child being autistic. Parents of children with additional needs fight for equity for our children in a world that’s not set up for it. We feel guilt for not fighting hard enough, when there’s no more fight in us. Please don’t make it worse for us.

A couple of things to get off my chest……

1) there’s no evidence of a link between paracetamol (the safest painkiller for pregnant parents and babies to take) and autism.

1/3

Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.

Today the cult leaders will claim to have figured out the cause of autism, and it'll be acetaminophen (Tylenol).

Here's an enormous study on this very correlation with stringent methodology and a sample size of 2.4 million children.

TL;DR - There's no link

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Medical ethicist Arthur Kaplan, quoted in the NYT:

“The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recyling old myths, lousy advice, outright lies & dangerous advice I have ever witnessed by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science”

On that leucovorin-autism nonsense being pushed by the White House and HHS today: Our science editor
@ejwillingham.bsky.social
"fears promoting leucovorin as a treatment for autism is similar to how some touted ivermectin as a COVID-19 antidote." In @usatoday.com:

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From Muppet History.

"People who received a different diagnosis or no diagnosis in prior generations now have an autism diagnosis, said Ari Ne’eman, an assistant professor of health policy and management at Harvard.

"That’s not an epidemic—it’s better understanding of a disability that’s likely always existed."

my mom took tylenol when she was pregnant, which made me super focused on menswear and now i have a million followers on twitter