Aoife Walsh

I RAGED at this on the radio yesterday, and will repeat my mantra: you cannot (MUST NOT) ask people to develop 'resilience' or 'grit' against those things that are in your power to change. 'Develop resilience' so often means 'your disability is inconveniencing me, please be less disabled' 🧵

They have no fucking idea how much “grit” a gender dysphoric kid with ADHD had to show going to a primary school in the Derbyshire coalfields in the 70s.

The people who write this shit wouldn’t last 5 minutes of my life.

They think we’re fragile? We are the strongest fucking people alive.

I honestly am out of ideas for what is wrong with Streeting if he thinks going back to saying "toughen up" to an undiagnosed 7 year old girl in 1992 crying in the school toilets because i didn't know why i was different, he thinks that's the frickin answer?!

The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening.

That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.

Shame on you, Keir Starmer.

The @societyofauthors.bsky.social can provide a clause to add to your contact. That's what I did.

While cops were freaking out at the nothing happening at Columbia yesterday, other cops were using chemical weapons banned in actual war as actual war crimes against students at CCNY just a dozen blocks north up in Harlem

www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/24/c...

Her remarks come after a Supreme Court ruling that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex. The Welsh government said it was "carefully considering" the court's decision.

The BBC keep doing this. This isn't true. This is straightforwardly wrong in law. The ruling *only* applied to the Equality Act 2010. Trans women are still legally women for the vast majority of purposes! That's the whole point of the Gender Recognition Act.

I've put in a complaint. So can you.

World Central Kitchen in Gaza are having to burn shipping pallets because there's no fuel to cook with.

Now their supplies are running out due to the blockade preventing delivery of aid and supplies.

Missed the part where trans people were dragging random people out of cars and setting fire to hotels with people inside. Still, we did use chalk on a statue so that's clearly the same.

Reality of being disabled. But the government and media will lie and push propaganda, exactly as the nazis did, that disabled people are a burden on the state.

As i said before, disabled people were the nazis FIRST target to m*rder en masse. And too many seem to be ignoring that fact.

It’s all 😍 round here.

Er, LOVE.❤️ 🧡

so SO delighted to see that @andersenpress.bsky.social have reissued this! it's a lovely, lovely thing and I have nothing but love for it. if you love a Streatfeild / EBD / classicy yummy children's vibe, you'll love it too.

Mass starvation. Ethnic cleansing. Genocide.

That is what our government is enabling — and it should be eternally ashamed.

End all arms sales to Israel now.

It’s bigger than huge, it’s large.

I don't often lack words for what I'm seeing, but I am absolutely without words: TX-03 Congressman really just quoted Joseph Goebbels and then walked out of the committee like he hit a home run.

What the hey, @theguardian.com. Is this your new agenda? Hoping to pick up a few semi-fascist readers, are you? Disabled children - the ideal whipping boy.

Screenshot of Guardian article which frames special educational needs and disability (SEND) children as a financial burden and the cause of local authorities' financial problems. Headline: "Nearly 20 councils in England 'at risk of insolvency' due to Send costs" Subhead: "Exclusive: Councils say multibillion pound debts caused by years of overspends on special educational needs support" Text link to another article: "Scores of English councils could go bankrupt when hidden Send debt reappears" Authors: "Patrick Butler, Pamela Duncan, Matthew Pearce and Rachel Boyd" published on Sun 30th March 2025 18:00BST

They're at it again, friends. Why is the Guardian so invested in painting disabled kids as a burden? This is barely 2 weeks after "potholes"

Ten years ago this book came out and I went to see it in Waterstones and went visibly all funny. Tomorrow it comes out AGAIN. Hot dog. Different cover now, up to date and all that, but the same good ol’ autistic heart. Maybe you should read it or something. @andersenpress.bsky.social

Lads I've got a book out the day after tomorrow. This is it, this is the fanfare.
To be fair it's a re-release rather than a brand new story, but I updated it and wrote a foreword and everything, and it's got a new cover.
It's called Too Close To Home. It's lovable.

As someone who smoked for a year or two (not very much and long ago), I think the uptick in ADHD diagnoses over the last 25 years is largely because when cigarettes were in vogue, chainsmoking was a decent way to self-med for it. Sure it kills you, but raw ADHD feels like your skeleton wants out.

Screenshot from an article that reads On Monday, the ministry published a list of names of 15,613 children under the age of 18 who it said had been killed in Israeli military operations in Gaza. Among them, 890 children were under the age of 1, and 274 were born and died during the war. Almost a quarter, 26%, were under the age of 5.

This report should break something in all of us.

15,613 children.

The first 27 pages of the report list children whose ages are 0.

26% were under the age of 5

Book cover. Delightfully sophisticated muted colours, an outline of a house being smothered by vines a la To The Lighthouse middle section, containing vignettes of a guitar, a cup, a pan, a chair, a cat, a cactus, and five silhouettes of women.

Look at this gorgeous beast. Out next Thursday thanks to @andersenpress.bsky.social - in time for almost all of Autism Acceptance Month. The cover is extremely pleasing and you should judge the book by it.

Can I figure out how to post images on BlueSky? No I cannot. But you can click on the link to see the beauty. I shouldn't have to do everything for you. I wrote the bloody book.

*Who's* got a book being rereleased in a brand new edition with a beautiful sophisticated new cover a week today? What? ME? www.andersenpress.co.uk/books/too-cl...

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.

This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

Her name is Rumeysa Ozturk, she's a student from Turkey, and even her lawyer doesn't know where she is right now.

We're taking the difficult, grown up decision, to steal literal children's lunch money rather than tax wealth.

I wouldn't mind so much if I'd made any proper money out of the bloody books in the first place.