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Leanne Maskell
11 months
If you're in the UK & have ADHD (or think you do) - APPLY FOR ACCESS TO WORK. There's up to £66k available per person, per year, to fund tailored support to help you at work, including ADHD coaching & administrative help.
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2 years
@AdultingADHD I will say ‘one minute’ 653 times a day which actually means ‘I am stuck in a hyperfocus zone and you should probably try again later’
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1 year
There's a National Patient Safety Alert on ADHD medication shortages - this is incredibly dangerous for a group where the suicide risk is 5x higher. Please sign & share this petition - it's urgent: #ADHD #ADHDmedication #elvanse
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1 year
Hey @ITV - could you maybe not suggest that people with ADHD pop cocaine for breakfast?🤯 Here's a complaint: & a petition calling for a public enquiry into ADHD support: #ADHD
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1 year
Telling someone with ADHD to 'just try time management' is like telling someone with an eyesight problem to 'just try squinting'. Super excited to have written ADHD-friendly hacks for @HuffPost that actually work! #ADHDcoach @BookPublicistUK
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2 years
You asked: Parliament listened. This is extremely rare, so PLEASE SHARE & USE YOUR VOICE. 🚨 If you have #ADHD and/or #Autism , or think you might, Parliament wants to hear your experiences for their debate on 6 Feb:
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1 year
Today my pharmacy told me the ADHD medication that keeps me alive is out of stock at the suppliers - and they don't know when it will be back. Please sign this petition calling for a public inquiry into ADHD support - it's urgent: #ADHD #elvanse
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Leanne Maskell
1 year
Super excited to share my new book, ADHD Works at Work - because it's impossible to use your rights if you don't know what they are. 💁‍♀️ Order here: #ADHD #ADHDAwarenessMonth #disability
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2 years
Sharing my #ADHD story on @BBCNews ahead of the parliamentary debate today 🙌 book here:
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2 years
Hello sudden new followers — guessing you are from @katiewaissel24 amazing work 🙏 if you want to avoid exploitation in modelling (& other!) creative industries, I wrote this book for you: #themodelmanifesto
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2 years
Also in awe at how @AdultingADHD was diagnosed just 2 years ago and has created SUCH AMAZINGNESS - this is the power of understanding your ADHD brain 🙌🙌🙌
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2 years
The constant gaslighting of yourself is so exhausting. Keep going. 🫶
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Rach Idowu 🔜 COMIC CON X EGX
2 years
Not having ADHD meds or accommodations is constantly fighting to push past the mental barrier in order to do sometimes the basic/standard things and doing this over and over again until, you eventually get diagnosed/some support - which was my case
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2 years
'ADHD IS REAL' (say it louder for those who didn't quite make it to the debate) 👏 Great point about those who are refused referrals because they have a 'good job'. #ADHDdebate #Autismdebate
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Leanne Maskell
11 months
One of the best things I’ve ever read on ADHD in women - it’s often not physical hyperactivity, but mental. Thank you @ItsEmilyKaty 💕
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Emily♡
11 months
NEW BLOG POST: My journey of discovering my ADHD.
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Leanne Maskell
2 years
SO PROUD ⁦ @katiewaissel24 ⁩ 🙌 it’s so easy to see people in the public eye as ‘lucky’ without realising how you’ve been manipulated to literally sign your life & any right to complain about it away. In awe of your strength. 👏👏👏
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Leanne Maskell
2 years
You can watch the Parliamentary debate on #adhd #autism live at 4:30pm today. Unfortunately my MP @coyleneil hasn’t replied to my letters, but so many other people’s have: the power of community. 🙌 Watch here:
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1 year
Happy World Mental Health Day... from a psychotherapist who doesn't believe in ADHD x @thetimes . 🤦‍♀️ Please sign the petition calling for a Public Inquiry into ADHD support so we don't have to wake up to articles like this: #ADHD #WorldMentalHealthDay
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2 years
(4) is it #legalbutharmful for anyone to see children being sexualised in fashion magazines? What’s the difference between this & child pornography? I was 14. @RebeccaFMusic @JGForsyth #onlinesafetybill #therealitymanifesto
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11 months
We did it! 👏 thank you so much to everyone who’s signed, shared & supported this petition! #adhd
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1 year
5 years ago, I couldn't stop Googling 'what's wrong with me?'. Today, I'm training @Google on the answer: I just think differently to 'most' people - and there's nothing wrong with that. 🥹 #ADHD #ADHDAwarenessMonth #ADHDworks
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2 years
If the Sunday Times have such an issue with ADHD being discussed in the media, why publish weekly articles mocking it? Because they can. There's no press guidelines from @ispo on reporting disability. Your attention = money. Complain here:
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2 years
(2) for example, in this womenswear campaign published in @voguemagazine , I was 13 years old. Do you think it’s #legalbutharmful for adult women to unknowingly compare themselves to a child? #onlinesafetybill
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Leanne Maskell
2 years
Imagine if @gilescoren @thetimes dedicated an entire article to laugh at what they call a 'thick, overpaid tool' making a documentary about cancer. I hope @SamThompsonUK complains - nobody deserves this, including you or the millions of others this article invalidates. #ADHD
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11 months
This petition calling for a Public Inquiry into ADHD support needs just under 1000 signatures in 5 days to make it to Government - please sign & share! @ADHDFoundation #ADHD
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4) As ADHD has only been diagnosable in adults since 2008, it's obvious that over diagnosis isn't the issue - but the NHS is severely underfunded and under-resourced. A review is urgently needed. @DHSCgovuk @ADHDFoundation
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2 years
It's surprising to see @guardian publish such a misogynistic & dangerous article that undermines neurodiversity and ADHD as a whole, without including any of these basic facts.
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2 years
Elvis was stuck in a debt-bondage contract, given drugs to comply, expected to pay $8m to leave & died at 42. 45 years on, this exploitation is STILL at the rotten core of the creative industries. @RebeccaFMusic @katiewaissel24
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Leanne Maskell
2 years
“Our society's understanding of neurodiversity is evolving and we are beginning to recognise how it can appear differently in adults, particularly for traditionally underrepresented groups.”
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Leanne Maskell
2 years
1 year ago I quit my law job to be a full time ADHD Coach. Today I’m launching the ADHD course with over 60 amazing ADHD-ers. You can do anything you put your mind to. 🫶 #adhd #adhdcoach #adhdworks
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2 years
Best secret to activism: be annoying. 🌝
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Leanne Maskell
1 year
For all the stigma I see around ADHD medication, I see nothing about the drug killing 3 million people per year: alcohol. Alcohol x ADHD = impulsivity x impulsivity. Sign the petition here: #ADHD #ADHDmedicationshortage
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Leanne Maskell
2 years
MP Siobhan Baillie is incredible, 'Once you strip away the drama... at the very core of this job is problem solving & spotting. So when families are telling us GPs, NHS, local government don’t have the right policies... we have to act.' #ADHD #Autism #ADHDdebate #Autismdebate
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2 years
'Parents do not want their children labelled or medicalised... they want them understood so they can thrive. How many of us would have benefitted from an early diagnosis of ADHD or Autism as kids?' MP Siobhan Kathleen Baillie 👏 #ADHD #Autism #ADHDdebate #Autismdebate
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2 years
Today’s ADHD fun: missed yoga because I lost my phone. Spent 25 mins looking for it. Found: underneath advent calendar. 🙃
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Leanne Maskell
2 years
@DAMIEN58440477 @katiewaissel24 Katie is one of the most courageous, passionate, intelligent, eloquent & determined people I’ve met 🙏 I’m so glad and would love to join the next conversation please!!
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Leanne Maskell
1 year
Having been diagnosed by a Harley St psychiatrist & put on meds that almost killed me, followed by a 10 minute NHS assessment - here's some thoughts on #ADHD #Panorama
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Leanne Maskell
1 year
If anyone under 30 has run out of their ADHD medication completely & is happy to talk on national radio about it, drop me your phone number & situation. 👋 #elvanse #adhdmedication
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1 year
How is it that ADHD medication is a 'controlled drug' because it's 'addictive' - yet I seem to forget to take it or redo my prescription???? #elvanse
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Leanne Maskell
1 year
Can you explain why people are waiting 10 years for life-saving ADHD assessments in the UK? I will be talking about this on @BBCRadioLondon live this Sunday at 5:10pm. Please sign & share this petition calling for change: #ADHD
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Leanne Maskell
2 years
debate has acknowledge the inequity for girls & women, lack of national data & the OUTDATED ASSESSMENT CRITERIA I presented on to the @WHO 👏 #ADHD #Autism #debate
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Leanne Maskell
1 year
Here's the pill I no longer have the luxury of taking as prescribed due to global shortages and years-long waiting lists to see a 'qualified' doctor. Talking to @bbcnewcastle about this today at 3pm: #ADHD #ADHDmedication #postyourpill
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Leanne Maskell
10 months
Such beautiful words that sum up living with a brain that goes a million miles per hour - thank you @ItsEmilyKaty
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Emily♡
10 months
A letter to my ADHD brain…something I wrote during ADHD Works coaching session when @LeanneMaskell1 asked us to write letter to our ADHD. 🫶
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Leanne Maskell
11 months
Almost there! 7 signatures to go: #adhd
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Leanne Maskell
3 years
Going live at 4pm for the #CreativeCoalition @WeAreCreativeUK event on “Eradicating Bullying & Harassment” in the creative industries, with @RebeccaFMusic @ZeldaZeldaluna @BritishFilmInst @TIMESUPUK @ad_association
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Leanne Maskell
2 years
Picked up @superhelperbook in @WaterstonesPicc : LIFE CHANGING. On behalf of all the people pleasers - thank you for writing it @jessbakerpsych 🙌🙌🙌
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Leanne Maskell
2 years
It’s unfortunate that my MP apparently doesn’t have the resources to do his job @ipsaUK - especially when #ADHD & #Autism come with significant suicide risks & this issue is being debated in Parliament today. 👀
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Leanne Maskell
2 years
For #nationalinclusionweek2022 , I am going to share a #reasonableadjustments policy I usually sell to companies tomorrow free of charge. Empowering people with the information they should be entitled to is not rocket science: it’s ‘inclusive’. #DisabilityRights
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2 years
Of course it is her fault. What was she thinking, trying to do a good job? Incomprehensible victim blaming here @mailonline
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Leanne Maskell
10 months
After much ADHD brain pain, ADHD Works at Work is an audiobook! 💓
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Leanne Maskell
1 year
Finally heard from my GP - who also told me I’d have to wait 7 years to talk to a ‘specialist’ about ADHD medication. 🙃
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Leanne Maskell
1 year
🥹 best feeling in the world to pass this knowledge along! Well done @ItsEmilyKaty 🫶 #RSD
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Emily♡
1 year
How I spent my Friday night 🤩🥳 Never knew how much I needed @LeanneMaskell1 & @ADHDWorks , literally life changing stuff. 😍
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1 year
@Meraki_mmy @ITV Yep - I don't take them to 'concentrate' - I take them to stay alive. 🙃
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Leanne Maskell
1 year
Just ran an ADHD Works group coaching session with 30 ADHD-ers all over the world and my heart is so full. 🥹
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Leanne Maskell
2 years
Great ask for having Autism & other neurodevelopmental conditions that are NOT mental health conditions (like ADHD!) separated out for data collection by the Government. This would help avoid harmful misconceptions e.g in the media. 🙃
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Leanne Maskell
2 years
Validating ADHD press coverage I've done this week: 1. @BBCWorld TV: 2. @BBCRadioLeeds : 3. @theipaper by @eleanornoyce_ : Choose how to use your attention. 🙃 #ADHD
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Leanne Maskell
1 year
3) Private assessments are typically a confirmation - you wouldn't pay thousands to be assessed for something you weren't sure you had, that wasn't running your life.
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Leanne Maskell
2 years
PSA: ADHD isn’t an epidemic. The medical world is just really, really late in catching up - so capitalism stepped in. #adhd
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Leanne Maskell
2 years
In @MetroUK today talking about ADHD marathoning aka how I have managed to do everything I've done in life😅 amazing piece by @JessicaCVL #ADHD #ADHDmarathoning
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Leanne Maskell
2 years
Also, hello to the many new people here. 🙋🏼‍♀️ I’m Leanne & after being diagnosed 5 years ago, I got on the ADHD hyper-focus train & haven’t been able to get off since. 🙃 Book here: #ADHD #ADHDworks #ADHDatoz
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Leanne Maskell
2 years
20k followers on linkedin from using it as a daily brain dump in not caring what anyone on that platform thought about me as none of my friends were on it & I quit office life. The irony. 😅
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Leanne Maskell
2 years
ADHD: an A to Z became an @amazon top 10 'Mover & Shaker' book overnight! 🥹 Find it here: With HUGE thanks to @BookPublicistUK 🙌 #ADHD #ADHDbooks
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Leanne Maskell
1 year
going live on @BBCLeicester now to talk about the #adhdmedicationshortages 👋
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Leanne Maskell
2 years
great to hear the importance placed on the need for better training for professionals both pre- and post- diagnosis during the debate in #ADHD & #Autism .
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Leanne Maskell
2 years
Here's a letter to ask your GP what support they have for people seeking #ADHD & #autism assessments & signpost them to support:
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Leanne Maskell
2 years
But also happy to report I did find my passport inside a birthday card so all is not lost.
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Leanne Maskell
2 years
Great to hear so many MPs open recognise the CRISIS of Autism & ADHD in the UK.
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Leanne Maskell
2 years
(5) how about women getting married comparing themselves to teenagers? I was 16 in this photo. @AnyaMeyerowitz explained how wedding dresses are deliberately sized DOWN in @GlamourMagUK - is this #legalbutharmful ? @RebeccaFMusic @JGForsyth #onlinesafetybill #therealitymanifesto
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Leanne Maskell
1 year
This petition calling for a Public Inquiry into pre & post ADHD diagnosis support needs 5233 signatures before November 19th. ADHD-ers: please take this deadline as a cue to activate your interest based nervous systems & SHARE. 😅 #ADHD #ADHDmedication
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Leanne Maskell
11 months
ADHD Works won the 'best diverse & inclusive brand' for The Soho Works Future 50! 🎉 To create something that helps others feel like they belong is one of the greatest feelings - especially for a lifelong misfit. 👋 @sohohouse #ADHD
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Leanne Maskell
11 months
Huge honour to be on @FT Working It podcast with @IsabelBerwick talking all things ADHD at Work! 🙌 #ADHD
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Isabel Berwick
1 year
This week on Working It, we talk ADHD. ➡️ How can managers support staff with ADHD, especially those who can't get medication rn ? ➡️ Why ADHD is a superpower - hyperfocus, creativity - I could go on.... Feat @LeanneMaskell1 and Dr Uthish Sreedaran
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Leanne Maskell
2 years
ADHD: an A to Z sold out of 6 months worth of books before the publication date. 👀 I wrote this book because I didn’t have anyone to talk to about #ADHD - but found a global community in return. 🫶
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Leanne Maskell
1 year
The depressing thing about this is that it's not news: 5 years ago, my GP's waiting list for an ADHD assessment was 7 years. Sign the petition calling for a Public Inquiry here: #ADHD #ADHDAwarenessMonth
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Leanne Maskell
1 year
BBC Radio Solent looking to talk to people who have been unable to get their medication in places like Dorset, Southampton and Portsmouth. Please get in touch with George @ADHDjournalist or george.sharpe.ext @bbc .co.uk #ADHD #ADHDmedicationshortage #elvanse
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Leanne Maskell
1 year
This petition needs 2400 signatures in 12 days to make it to the UK Government - who can answer questions like why thousands of people with ADHD are unable to access medication or assessments. PLEASE SHARE. #ADHD
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Leanne Maskell
1 year
2) The core system is broken - no oversight and no resources within the NHS makes people extremely vulnerable to exploitation.
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Leanne Maskell
2 years
@charliclement_ How you can tell my book was written by someone with ADHD 🙃 very happy to send you a copy, it’s also being republished by @JKPBooks !
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Leanne Maskell
2 years
Having written 85% of this book before ignoring it for a year out of fear... here's a sign to DO THE THING YOU WANT TO DO RIGHT NOW. You never know where it will take you! #adhdawarenessmonth #adhdatoz
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Leanne Maskell
2 years
@lanizae1 @AdultingADHD This hits too hard 😂 was forever having plates of food left next to my intensely focused self that just didn’t even register them until being nagged…
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Leanne Maskell
11 months
@WolfofBaldSt yes, it funds mine!
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Leanne Maskell
1 year
😭 thank you @ItsEmilyKaty - this post is giving me motivation to finish the last 10% of my new book on ADHD at Work! 🫶 Read ADHD: an A to Z here: #ADHDbooks
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Emily♡
1 year
I’ve spent the past two months (with a short break where my interest dwindled and was captivated by something else - classic ADHD) delving into @LeanneMaskell1 ’s book ‘ADHD: An A to Z’. And wow.
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2 years
5) Without a formal diagnosis many people with Autism & ADHD are more likely to struggle, end up in crisis, with mental health challenges & take their own lives.
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Leanne Maskell
2 years
live demonstration of rejection sensitive dysphoria tonight from @seannwalsh #imaceleb #rsd #adhd
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Leanne Maskell
2 years
Yesterday @BorisJohnson committed to requiring labels on images where bodies have been digitally altered - a no brainer. 👏 @drlukeevans #recognisebodyimage #therealitymanifesto
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Leanne Maskell
2 years
@AdultingADHD thank YOU!!! I hope you like reading it as much as I liked writing it - I'm so mega excited to use my cards!!
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Leanne Maskell
2 years
Thank you! It was @SallyBundockBBC 🙌
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Alex-the_Psychoed_Monkey on Threads
2 years
Brilliant to hear this and double BRILLIANT to hear a BBC journalist saying "it's really difficult for people to get a diagnosis, especially when you're an adult in the UK". Dropping facts! Could anyone tell me who this newsreader is please?
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