Thread on the beauty of wildlife 🧵 1. When it’s cold enough to see the melody

Education matters. Learning matters. Being in school is not a guarantee of learning for every child on every day. Children can’t excel if their needs aren’t met, and driving up attendance won’t help with that. Children need better than this. Attendance is not enough.

You simply cannot use a simplified tool like this to make such weighted decisions, especially in the hands of untrained staff who are not aware of associated stigma. Not when these questions are applicable to so many other presentations, especially neurodiversity and trauma.

“No one wants to hear about your special interest—” I do. Tell me all about how the Appalachians are older than Saturn’s Rings or how the invention of the compass led to the atomic bomb. Life is so brief and the world is so big and we have to learn from each other.

A day at @StirUni with my daughter. Taking pics of interesting colours, shapes and textures that we see 👀 @AtherDes @artatstirling @ArtlinkCentral #studentmhn #studentnurse #studentlife #UniversityofStirling #AutumnPhotography #mentalhealth

🌱Excited to launch our wellbeing toolkit "Resting, Relaxation & Reflection", activities to help with introspection and creative expression for healthcare professionals. Learn more, download the toolkit here: https://t.co/3Lc0Ra6r0C… #creativehealthcare @NHSForthValley @StirUni

Fully free to access via the website: https://t.co/ClGJ4YnUlq Physical copies can be found around NHS FV and University of Stirling! This toolkit was also made possible thanks to the University of Stirling's Vice Chancellor's Fund @StirUni @Stirling_Nurse

What's that? Oh, just a toolkit I've been developing with @ArtlinkCentral and @orlastevensart ! Created in collaboration with healthcare students, it contains creative exercises of different mediums and lengths to encourage students and professionals to rest, relax, and reflect.

Physical copies soon to be appearing across @NHSForthValley and @StirUni well-being spaces! This toolkit contains creative practices and reflective questions of a variety of timescales and artistic mediums.

Incredibly excited to say the toolkit I've been developing in collaboration with @ArtlinkCentral, @orlastevensart and @StirUni is now completed and freely accessible on the Artlink website! Are you a healthcare professional or student? This is for you! https://t.co/CcrMT2Rl9o

Highly Masked in Public but Perpetually Exhausted in Private #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodiversity #Disability

17% of people in general adult psychiatric services had diagnosable #ADHD. Most of them are probably undiagnosed and misdiagnosed instead. Reported ⁦@rcpsych⁩ conference. #psychiatry #mentalhealth #neurodiversity

Why are those with #autism getting misdiagnosed as having a personality disorder? | Morning Star #BPD

Impressed with this from the mindfulness in schools landmark study which showed it didn't work. Prof Kuyken says "we know that inequalities, deprivation and poverty drive mental health problems. And maybe we need to be thinking about interventions which help improve those first."

It would seem I'm now fully into the qualitative analysis stages of my dissertation. Never before have I related to a meme so hard 🫨

It's free EADDAT self-certification month! https://t.co/odbltNELed #DementiaFriendly #DementiaAware #AgeingPopulation #DementiaDesign

A new study finds that nonautistic trans people experience alexithymia at an elevated rate, just as Autistic people do. Perhaps BOTH trans and Autistic people have trouble knowing our feelings because we're used to dissociating from them due to trauma. https://t.co/DlZC72FPeI

Autistic people live an estimated 16 years less than the general population. Reasons for this huge disparity may include: increased rates of mental illness, trauma, stress and unaliving; (often fatal) co-occurring conditions; and a lack of appropriate and accessible healthcare.

A slight change has been made to the inclusion criteria for my study, and I've done away with the age range. I tried to use other studies for guidance and included an upper range, but upon reflection, there's really no need for it. Check out the study at: https://t.co/0D15ALINYA