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ADHD Dude

@adhddude.bsky.social
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Married to a neurodiverse wife, with neurodiverse children. I have ADHD and advocate for ADHD.

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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
About 30,000 autistic ppl in the UK have Type 2 Diabetes, aren't on insulin, & use wearable monitors (CGMs). These save lives for those who don't spot low-sugar events / can't cope with endless painful finger prick tests each day etc. The NHS has removed funding. Now, have to pay ~ £1500/yr. /
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 5h
I was refused this for my diabetes. I wanted a wearable monitor as I will not prick my finger every day - through forgetting and I don’t like the discomfort of the prick. ADHD is strongly associated with type 2 diabetes.
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My latest article on my Substack craiglesteradhd.substack.com/p/the-anatom...
craiglesteradhd.substack.com
The anatomy of a Rebuttal to ADHD denialism
A brutal takedown of Sami Timimi and his ADHD sceptics. It is a beautiful thing..
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I wrote this in response to the Channel 4 story on the “Myth of ADHD”. When you have Sami Timimi as the lead cheerleader in this story, questions need to be asked craiglesteradhd.substack.com/p/debunking-...
craiglesteradhd.substack.com
Debunking the "ADHD myth"
ADHD denialism does not invalidate ADHD as a diagnosis!
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
She doesn’t mention her murder bill is a hugely divisive issue and one her sister would probably not have been willing to support. Kim Leadbeater is the last person to talk. She is a disgusting individual.
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XianJaneway @xianjaneway.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I wish other countries would understand, Americans did NOT want Trump. Elon Musk wanted Trump. Billionaires wanted Trump. Even if every part of the election was legitimate, Musk alone poured 50 BILLION $$$ into Trump's PR machine. Canadians don't even make $$ off TikTok! Other countries....
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I wrote this about ADHD & education. open.substack.com/pub/craigles...
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ADHD & education
It is all about the accommodations and adjustments
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I got my account back!
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Have heard nothing from Twitter support
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 09/06/2026
👏 Mick Lynch: "We believe we pay for each other through a fair tax system in where wealth is distributed properly so that all people can advance." "You believe in isolating people and taking advantage of poverty so that you can divide them and make your friends even richer."
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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...
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Somali Referee Says His World Cup Dream Is Dashed After U.S. Denies Entry
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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Jon Adams @soundcube.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I have so much to offer but miss out on so many opportunities because I have no ‘work support person’ anymore to help me find, remember & apply for them That & #ADHD #RSD and untreated trauma makes me feel so utterly useless & a waste of space being in this position, just eroding my belonging 🙀
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Sheo @sheologian.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I think it’s so interesting how women are said to be mentally ill if she stands up for herself or in any way violates expectations but a guy who just fucking sucks is assumed to have a trauma disorder to excuse his character flaws when convenient and it’s not a liability whatsoever for him
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Since 1980, under the Thatcherite policies, 2.8m social homes sold, 1.9m in England for £51bn. In 2024, England homes were worth £430bn. Councils didn't receive full sales proceeds, couldn't replenish housing stock. Vital depts closed. Social homes down from 6.8m to 5.4m. Huge housing crisis.
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The housing crisis is manufactured. We can end it.
Wage cuts and the right to buy are to blame
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
"If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it." - Roald Dahl
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This is how children with ADHD should be accommodated in education. substack.com/@craiglester...
substack.com
ADHD & education
It is all about the accommodations and adjustments
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The author is wrong about autism - the causes are well known, so is the fact that autism is a spectrum disorder. He betrays his lack of knowledge of the role that genetics plays in neurodevelopment. And his comments about ADHD and diet are repugnant. I know why the child has a poor diet…
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This is typical fare for anti diagnosis thinking. People think that it is wrong to “label” children, but they don’t know how messy genetics is, nor how it does affect children in a disastrous educational system, where conformity is valued over everything else.
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Genetics are complex and messy. The premise of this article is offensive.
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Yes. Exactly that. From someone I actually knew. Who had also been compromised. I won’t get it back. I am not going to try and restart there - it is 100x harder now to do so.
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Teachers are constantly wrong - even when teaching children with special needs, because they lack the fundamentals of understanding neurodevelopment.
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
In fact, autism is seldom a singular neurodevelopmental condition, as it is intertwined with other neurological conditions. And what if it is not autism, but looks like it - like my son’s presupposed “autism”, which turned out not to be autism.
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
But this is absolute garbage when it comes to #ADHD, as diagnosis is vital. It is not about a “label”! Diagnosis opens the door to treatment and support - which is severely lacking. See, not all neurodevelopmental disorders are equal. And if a child is AuDHD? Then it becomes complex.
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
He must have a debilitating stroke, become so incapacitated he can’t walk, can’t speak, has to be pushed around in a wheelchair. He also needs to suffer incredible pain. For at least a decade.
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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Words fail.
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Vulnerable families illegally ‘dumped’ hundreds of miles away by London councils
Exclusive: Practice that includes women fleeing abuse is ‘ripping at social fabric’ of towns in poorest parts of England
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Ask why so many children are in care in the first place? Also ask why so many are disabled children?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/06/2026
WOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged "You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her" "I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I was hacked. Trying to get Twitter support to sort it out. I got it suspended to prevent anymore spam.
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Cierzo 🇪🇸🇪🇺🇬🇧 🖖 @cierzo.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
UK education has a massive blind spot. If your child is bright and neurodivergent (2e), there is almost no place for them. Too complex for mainstream. Too able for specialist. This isn’t a parenting problem, it’s a system failure. #EDUCATION #GIFTED #2e
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Elseagee 🟧 🌊 🌊 🌊🎨 🎸 @elseagee.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I would argue that the UK has been actively discriminating against disabled people. From education to children in care, to employment, to benefits. It has been a constant eroding of human rights.
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Perhaps then a case needs to be made at Strasbourg challenging the UK government violating disabled people’s human rights. The UNHRC has been very critical of the policies of the UK govt’s policies.
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
In the face of deepening deprivation in the UK, socio economic conditions are playing havoc in communities. Undiagnosed ADHD is a huge problem, and unrecognised as a major factor of crime. Lack of early diagnosis and intervention is a problem. www.lukeclements.co.uk/parent-blame...
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Parent Blame and Youth Crime – Luke Clements
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
This proves how entrenched eugenics are in the legal system. People with learning disabilities are canon fodder for politicians - inconvenient, a nuisance. Lock them up and throw away the key is the prevailing attitude.
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
You have very little credibility yourself. You and your party are guilty of criminal conduct when it comes to disabled people’s rights - and your attitude towards disabled children is exactly as atrocious as Farage’s racism. Fucking horrible person you are.
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
This should be appealed to the European Court of Human Rights. The judges hardly applied their minds in this matter. UK courts have a terrible track record when it comes to disabled people’s rights. This ruling puts the fear of God in me as a parent of learning disabled teen.
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
This is a terrible decision. The judiciary are compromised and actually so far out of touch. Judges are unwilling to confront the government, they lack courage and in my opinion are owned by the political class. They enforce classism and elitism.
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Definitely not going to improve children’s lives. Outcomes? What about their lives, their lives wellbeing? The reforms are going to make it much, much worse - a lot of concern about the so-called reforms.
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Oliver Lewis @droliverlewis.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
.@mencap.org.uk, @mind.org.uk and @autisticsociety.bsky.social said this week’s Supreme Court judgment “removes safeguards that history shows us are vital for disabled people” while introducing a “regressive legal standard” across the NHS and social care. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Ruling removes ‘vital’ UK safeguards for severely disabled people, charities warn
Campaigners say supreme court judgment on deprivation of liberty safeguards introduces ‘regressive legal standard’
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
It's hard to convey just how monstrous the privatisation of children's care homes has become. Highly vulnerable children have been turned into cash machines, with devastating impacts on their wellbeing. Please sit down before reading this week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Horrific, unregulated, and very profitable. The companies making cash from England’s children in care | George Monbiot
Councils are sending vulnerable kids to homes ran by money-grabbing cowboys and private-equity vultures, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
There is that too! 🤮
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Musk’s father, Errol is nasty too. Raving racist. Musk’s mother, May, is equally disgusting. They are a terrible bunch. Worst part of it? A large percentage of white South Africans love Musk. But then, those whites are unreformed racists.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Darren Jones sent his commiserations to Peter Mandelson after he was sacked as US ambassador in messages that were not disclosed as part of the humble address release www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Starmer’s chief secretary consoled Mandelson after dismissal as US ambassador, undisclosed texts show
Darren Jones’s messages include requests for advice on the reshuffle and remarks about former business secretary Jonathan Reynolds
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Thanks. Currently in the process of recovering the account.
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Please warn people. I no longer can log in. It happened yesterday. Support not interested in helping. I am not going back - I tried to start a new account, it is a mission to get away from the far right wing content if you start afresh.
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Yes I have lost the account. Fuming.
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Dr Zoë Ayres @zjayres.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Absolutely shameful move by the University of Nottingham. The community will not forget. Solidarity with all affected.
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
They then say, no pouch, no phone. It is not a solution. What is interesting is my daughter’s school in Scotland permits phones, but within reasonable boundaries, like not using it during class time.
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ADHD Dude @adhddude.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The children take them home. Parents are expected to pay for them! There are quality issues with them too - they start falling apart fairly quickly. Children can unlock them too! My daughter had one in her last school in England.
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