You cannot claim you have to follow public perception when the public perception is based on misinformation. That should be a given, although obviously it isn't, in policymaking, as with anything else. You definitely cannot frame a poll to gauge public perception based on misinformation, as here. 3/

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As with so much, whether diagnosis rates for autism and ADHD, levels of immigration, access to disability support, number of trans/non-binary individuals etc etc, public perception is based on what the public read, policies are then based on public perception. Perception is often bollocks though. 2/

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Absurd question that most people are plainly totally unqualified to answer. No alt text on the illustrating image. Ableism squared. 🫠

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The British public being asked to choose between three oversimplified options, all of which were rejected a week ago at the end of a months-long review by clinical and academic experts. Just gonna go scream into the void

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Reading this made me tear up, and that's really special because we Germans only get to tear up twice a year. Professor Peter Fonagy, Chair of the Independent Review into Mental Health Conditions, ADHD and Autism (2026), with his letter to a young person.

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