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It’s #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek and here’s our thread with 10 tips for supporting autistic children’s mental health. 
1. Listen to our experiences. Our sensory and other lived experiences might be different to those around us but that doesn’t mean they are not real so don’t dismiss them.
2.Believe us. Don’t tell us that we are fine when we are not. Validate our lived experiences. That label on the jumper could very well be driving us to distraction! That food could be too spicy/too bland.
You have sat and watched me suffer all this @ExpertWitness_ aka @DrHorsford for 8 fuckin solid years.
Was this #dogwalker a #whitewoman by any chance?
Because for the life of me, I do not get how all can ignore what happened to #myson #AmbroseGGBall in 8 solid years unless it was @MPSHaringey posting up all the wrong information, wrong days and dates,
the wrong locations, wrong description of clothing , the wrong Fox pub, all different times of the night, leaving out the vital information leading up to during and after my son went @missingpeople, did not response for 56 hours after all the calls myself and others had made over
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1/ I was well mannered.
I was a people pleaser.
I once and believed that people who were also well mannered and smiled must be honest and kind.
I was groomed. @davtw2
1/ I was well mannered.
I was a people pleaser.
I once and believed that people who were also well mannered and smiled must be honest and kind.
I was groomed. @davtw2
2/ Unfortunately being well mannered in a situation of trust, can lead to being used and abused.
It can lead to grooming.
It can lead to many forms of abuse including IPV and DFV.
Teaching our children to be obedient isn’t sending the right message. @DrWilliams
It can lead to grooming.
It can lead to many forms of abuse including IPV and DFV.
Teaching our children to be obedient isn’t sending the right message. @DrWilliams
3/ Through adversity Grace Tame learned to trust her instincts and show her emotions.
This deflects those who are not genuine. It helps to deflect shame. Shame grows in silence. @TamePunk
This deflects those who are not genuine. It helps to deflect shame. Shame grows in silence. @TamePunk
1. UNICEF warn ‘children are not the face of this pandemic. But they risk being amongst its biggest victims.’
Children are missing social interaction & play. Learning is not the same.
It’s our priority especially in #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek that every child’s health matters.
Children are missing social interaction & play. Learning is not the same.
It’s our priority especially in #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek that every child’s health matters.
2. While children’s health has long been one of my top priorities, I am more worried than ever about how tough things are for young people today. As a parent I’m struck by how often my own children ask “when will coronavirus end?”
#ChildrensMentalHealthWeek
#ChildrensMentalHealthWeek
3. Mental health problems in children are on the rise – from 1 in 9 in 2017 to 1 in 6 in 2020, according to figures from @NHSDigital. And during the pandemic things have been tougher than ever.
This exchange needs studying with care. “Mental health” is being framed in a very specific way with a clear intention. Look for the buzzwords of resilience and positivity and being mentally well so you can contribute to a better future. Who is brought in and left out by this?
As with my comments yesterday about enforcing “wellness” while ignoring structural harms and causes of distress, the framing of “mental health” as something positive we should all have in the future without attending to who and what is making us unwell *now* is concerning.
The logical endpoints of these messages are that mental health is a good thing we all have and should strive for with grit and gumption and if we don’t have it it’ll be due to not trying hard enough rather than circumstances, life events, social factors and political decisions.
What does it mean to say that mental health is a social and political issue?
A thread with ten different and interconnected ideas for #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek.
A thread with ten different and interconnected ideas for #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek.
1) Causal pathways: Probably the most ideological and ripe for accusations of cherry picking on both sides. Investigates and campaigns around the relationship between various social inequalities (poverty, ethnicity, gender etc.) and prevalence of mental illness or distress.
2) Government policy: Highlights the impact of government agendas and proposals. For example, we have highlighted the impact of austerity on mental health and the shortcomings of the recent green paper on children and young people's mental health.
