Thought I’d write a thread on ADHD, especially as it’s trending.

I’ll specifically focus on Jacques, from #LoveIsland, who left this evening, and explain how his ADHD affects him, or at least, my POV as someone who has ADHD;

First off, his difficulty expressing emotions; This is a very common problem for ADHD folk. Myself included. Expressing our emotions can be difficult, as we find it troublesome to regulate our emotions and they can very quickly overwhelm us, and the spotlight of the #LoveIsland villa would probably further intensify this.

Quick 🧵 about your rights concerning working from home, if you are entitled to Reasonable Adjustments under the DDA in the UK;

(DDA stands for Disability Discrimination Act)

Basically, your employer cannot force you back to an office if you can do your job at home. So recently I’ve been contacted by a fair few people who feel they are being pressured by their employer to come back into the office, despite being able to work from home just as effectively.

Under the DDA, working from home can be considered a reasonable adjustment.

I want to talk today about “mate crime”, a specific form of disability hate crime.

I want to speak about it from the perspective as a victim of it, as I was a victim of it.

However, I only recognised that I was a victim of it very recently. To set out some context, the events I’m about to described when I was between the ages of 16-18, and was still very much in the position of having no friends, so I was especially vulnerable to it.