Monique Botha is actually they/them 🤷🏻♀️
@DrMBotha
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ECR community psychologist focusing on dehumanization and objectification of minority groups in science. Tweets my own.
Joined February 2014
✨NEW PAPER ALERT✨ “Autism research is in crisis”: A mixed method study of researcher’s constructions of autistic people and autism research - by me and Eiliidh Cage Buckle up for a long(ish) thread about how autistic people disrupt research agendas! 1/ https://t.co/GhSpRJxEuL
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Autism researchers can be ableist, including by talking about autistic people in sub-human terms (dehumanisation), treating autistic people like objects (obj...
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I've just had my PIP reassessment application rejected and it's thrown me into a depressive episode from the stress that I now have to fight through the courts all over again just to get it back. And I will, trust me.
The DWP is the biggest trigger for mental health relapse in Britain.
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Nothing short of journalistic malpractice to not mention this rise is driven by people moving off legacy benefits and onto UC. If there was any code of standards among your profession you'd be fucking struck off as would most of your colleagues.
More than 4million Universal Credit claimants now have no requirement to work - that's predominantly people who are sick along with students and those with caring responsibilities The rise is extraordinary - it's gone up from from 2.896million in October 2024 to 4.027million in
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Interesting presumption that I have a Motability car as if advocating shared resources must come from self-interest. We all give and take from the collective. That’s how society works — through shared values, not transactions.
@Shrink_at_Large Let’s not forget your mobility benefits that pay for that car to get you get to work. How much does that cost the tax payer?
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The Times: “1 million more claim UC without looking for work.” Reality: They were predominantly moved from legacy benefits by the DWP. That’s managed migration, not mass laziness. Stop moralising admin. It is extremely damaging, actively worsening the nation’s mental health.
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A reminder: Here’s the real reason Universal Credit claims have soared (@TheCanaryUK) recently https://t.co/7IbmAJ1pdq
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Despite parliament being on their summer holibobs, the right-wing rags haven’t taken the summer off from spreading DWP lies
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In an online survey by @DrMBotha
@tmburns08 @DurhamPsych, autistic people had more distress and conflict around their identity and poorer mental health than non-autistic people. FREE until 25th November https://t.co/SxEhm0YUTs
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Background: Autistic people experience worse mental health outcomes than non-autistic people. Masking (concealing autistic traits) is found to relate to poor mental health. Research shows that...
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The Times says “1 million more on UC without looking for work.” I say: 1.3 million people have been pushed off the disability benefit ESA in that time. 1 in 4 lost benefits entirely. #CareNotCuts
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The audacity of people that think they get to decide who is disabled and who isn't is mind blowing.
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Have any of these companies considered training the people they hire?
66% of hiring managers say most recent hires are not fully prepared for their roles, most often due to a lack of experience, per Fast Company.
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Normally, when the media discuss the welfare bill and cuts, they conveniently omit that half of it goes to state pensions. Suddenly, they're starting to mention it. Why? Because, as I warned years ago, the state pension is now in the firing line for cuts. The rich want it cut.
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This is the Appalachian church leader who offered immediately to help the woman on TikTok that was calling churches asking for baby formula. Heritage Hope Church of God has since received over $75,000 to their food pantry. The congregation says he’s been crying all week 😭
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Could folk with physical disabilities and not mental illness PLEASE not collude with the idea that mental illness is not a disability.
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‘If you’re disabled, you’re not ill.’ Sir Charlie Mayfield (author of the Keep Britain Working review) This is who’s shaping UK disability employment policy. Shocking, he doesn’t even understand the basics. I’m disabled because I’m chronically ill with #MECFS.
Sir Charlie Mayfield, author of the Keep Britain Working Review, endorses the BioPsychoSocial model (mispronounces it) and also says he thinks we should mainly focus on the Psycho and Social parts…
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It's really not surprising that so many disabled and chronically ill people have medical trauma
i hate doctors so much you literally have to manipulate them into doing their jobs. i’ve found doctors take me seriously when i act like i am unintelligent and uninformed. they don’t like patients using medical terms. only they are allowed to know those words
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VERY IMPORTANT Multiple outlets claim Keep Britain Working says a 22-year-old leaving work through illness “costs the state £1 million.” That’s false. The report says the individual “loses £1 million in lifetime earnings.” Please challenge this as it’s incendiary and wrong.
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Like should birthing partners be made welcome, YES! Given all the trauma currently involved in birthing through the NHS it's actually not high up on my list. Like if I ever have birth again what I'd want is to not be left in labour so dangerously long that my baby almost dies
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Genuinely amazing given that people have been pushing for a national inquiry into child birth mortality, brutal traumatic births in which they or their child experience near death experiences or actually die, and this MP is talking about where fathers sleep.
Giving birth is obviously an incredibly challenging experience for the mother - trust me, nobody is denying that. I do think though, that fathers should be shown more respect by the NHS during the whole process. No food provided, no basic bedding, nothing. The father is having
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wow you mean after a massive press campaign against the welfare system, peoples views have shifted? I for one am shocked.
For the first time in a decade the majority of British adults believe the generosity of the welfare system stops people from supporting themselves, according to the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen). https://t.co/hhwGQbEjQQ
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A wheelchair using friend tells me they were denied access to no less than 4 rail replacement coaches trying to travel North from York. 2 said ♿️lifts were not working & 2 wouldn’t try. But do tell me again how disabled people have the same access to travel as everyone else 🤬
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I applied for PiP once, as a teenager. I have a load of different health issues and I'm a wheelchair user, conditions that I have been suffering with for as long as I remember that have got progressively worse. I scored 0 points on the basis that 'i can communicate effectively'
I find it truly astounding that this woman thinks it perfectly normal and acceptable to be claiming benefits for mild anxiety while TALKING ON LIVE TV. Nobody should get benefits for anxiety, especially those that can travel to a studio, sit in an audience and talk on TV.
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