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Total Well End.

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As a follow up to the post regarding "Get Well" Magazine and their patented cover quackery it seems that the publishers have noticed the Autistic communities complaints so they decided to issue this statement: I really don't know where to start with this, it's offensive, tone deaf and incredibly suspect. Not to mention bloody dangerous in it's attempt to 'sell' nonsensical cure-alls, they can't even get the language right. Oh well. Merry Christmas.

The Mourning After.

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Was kinda expecting the election results we got if I'm honest seeing as the whole world seems content to tear itself apart but one thing in particular hit home. Sally-Ann Hart, the Conservative candidate for Hastings and Ry who said people with learning disabilities didn't understand money and therefore don't deserve full pay won her seat. She won. People heard her say those things and thought "Yeah, I can get behind that."  Thanks everyone who voted for her.  We wont forget.

Every Little Helps....

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Ah Sainsbury's - you were doing so well with the sunflower lanyard and your autism awareness training but you had to go spoil it didn't you? Seems that a Twitter storm has erupted this weekend due to the supermarket chain stocking "Get Well" Magazine. And why is this a problem I hear you cry/type? Well let's take a look at the latest issue: Really? But there's more. Turns out that "Get Well" Magazine is actually a retitled version of  "What Doctors Don't Tell You", a (previously banned by Sainsbury's in 2013) publication by anti-vaxxer Lynne McTaggart that has been referred to as "viciously, viciously anti-vaccine"by Dr Ben Goldacre and "pseudoscience" by The Times as well as managing in it's short lifespan to commit 54 breaches of the ASA Code. Here's some interesting reading regarding the criticism of the magazine: You can follow the story on Twitter but in the m