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adhd

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I keep seeing posts pop up that I relate to, then I look down and it's from an ADHD community. Either these are experiences everyone has... Or I have undiagnosed ADHD

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What's it like living in the UK?

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We have 'freedom of expression' as outlined in the 1998 Human Rights Act. The HRA says that we are free to express ourselves as we see fit so long as it is within the confines of the law.

We have relatively strong hate speech laws as outlined in the 1986 Public Order Act, which makes it an offense to "[make] threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviours that causes, or is likely to cause, another person harassment, alarm or distress" and "language that encourages terrorism".

Recently a non-violent pro-Palestine, activist group (Palestine Action) was prescribed as a terrorist group, making it illegal to support any of their actions.

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33 Powerful Books That Might Change Your Life

Anything, or anyone, that speaks positively of 'Coddling of the American Mind' should be approached with extreme scepticism.

An interesting resource for people looking to combat shit like this is the podcast 'If Books Could Kill'.

I don't nessecirily always agree with the hosts' wider takes on things, but their reading of these types of books is pretty spot on.

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Hundreds queue at new NHS dental practice in Bristol hoping for treatment

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From what i understand there's plenty of dentists, but they are all private. The government doesn't maintain dentists as part of the NHS, in effect they subcontract the work out to private dentists.

We do get subsidised dentil treatment, but it's limited in scope, and the way the government has handed out the contracts means there's not enough spaces to go around.

I live in a city, and it took almost 18 months for me to get accepted as an NHS patient...in the next city over! But I was offered private treatment instantly at dentists surgeries that had "no space". The system is a fucking joke.