Rosie (she/her)

@airfriedrosie

Trans accomplice. Feminist. Nerd. Permanently anxious and exhausted. Luddite. I have cats.

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Rosie (she/her)@airfriedrosie· Jul 15

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

In others, notably ADHD and autism, rising diagnoses and referrals appear to exceed changes in underlying epidemiological prevalence and are likely to reflect a combination of:

improved recognition
changing help-seeking behaviour
institutional incentives
pressures within existing service pathways
Across both ADHD and autism, best currently available population-based estimates remain relatively stable, while administrative diagnoses, self-identification and recorded service demand have increased substantially. In autism, the evidence also points to particularly rapid growth in identified need within educational systems, including increasing identification among girls and among young people without learning disability.

These patterns suggest that rising demand is not simply the result of increasing prevalence, but of several processes operating simultaneously, including:

real increases in distress in some groups
improved recognition of previously unmet need
changing expectations about support
systems that frequently rely on formal diagnosis as the primary route to assistance
Across the system, support is too often accessed through pathways that are slow, fragmented and heavily dependent on diagnostic categorisation. While diagnosis remains essential for some forms of clinical decision-making, the evidence suggests that current arrangements do not always provide the most effective or efficient way of identifying and responding to need.

In particular, where access to support depends heavily on formal diagnosis, demand for diagnostic assessment can increase more rapidly than systems are able to respond, generating long waiting times, duplication of assessment and pressure on specialist services.

The next phase of the review will therefore focus on clarifying the relationship between distress, diagnosis and need, and on examining how systems might respond more effectively to these patterns. A central objective will be to identify opportunities for developing more coherent, evidence-informed care pathways that enable support to be provided earlier and more proportionately, while ensuring that specialist services are available in a timely and appropriate manner for those whose needs are most complex.

Rosie (she/her)@airfriedrosie· Jun 26

That tracks.

Your Results:

92% Woke, 8% Chud
27% Technro, 73% Neo-Luddite
20% Hope pulled, 80% Doomer
89% Davos, 11% Dubai

Your closest match: Greta Thunberg
[Photo of Greya in a Keffiyeh]
"Swedish environmental activist"

Rosie (she/her)@airfriedrosie· Jun 22

phobia
noun [ C or U ]
uk /ˈfəʊ.bi.ə/ us /ˈfoʊ.bi.ə/
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a type of anxiety disorder (= a mental illness that makes someone very worried and affects their life) that involves an extreme fear of something:
She refused the injection because she had a phobia about needles.
He has no real desire to travel and suffers from a phobia of flying.
For someone with social phobia, a conversation with a neighbour can cause a paralyzing sense of dread.

an extreme fear or dislike of a particular thing or situation, especially one that is not reasonable:
Why is there this phobia about women doing so-called men's jobs?

Rosie (she/her)@airfriedrosie· Jun 21

Thanks, get alt text bot

HAPPY COLYS ALGAEBTO GUS PRIDE MONTH! OVE IS DEER McPh Ele

Rosie (she/her)@airfriedrosie· Jun 21

I have two cats. This is not one of them.

A black cat having a nose around my house.

Rosie (she/her)@airfriedrosie· Jun 20

Disabling comments and quote posts because he knows he's deliberately misrepresenting a trans woman's shit post.

Colin Dickey:
Anyway if you're under 40 you might take a moment to recognise that no matter how cringe you might find gay men's choirs, they did a lot of work keeping actual people alive during a desperate time and your cynical shitposting makes you look dumb as fucking hell

Rosie (she/her)@airfriedrosie· May 23

day drinking. Day drinking. Day Drinking. Day Drinking! DAY DRINKING! DAY! DRINKING!

A selfie of me drinking a strawberry daiquiri in a pink top with strawberries printed on then. I'm sat in my garden and I have long, strawberry blonde hair and fair skin.

Rosie (she/her)@airfriedrosie· May 7

Alt text

I was a paid member of staff at the British Red Cross where I managed Dance: Make Your Move fundraising events. These events regularly attracted large audiences and involved significant participation from young people, raising substantial funds for the charity.

Zack Polanski volunteered as an emcee at several of these events over multiple years. In this role, he was on stage, represented the organisation publicly, and spoke about its core principles, including humanitarianism, impartiality, and voluntary service. He was, in practice, acting as a public-facing representative of the charity at these events.

The recent smear campaign is appalling. Zack was an enthusiastic, kind and valued volunteer who believed deeply in the cause.

Rosie (she/her)@airfriedrosie· Apr 29

I don't have it anymore so I had to recreate it but it was something like this

The 4 panel angry wojack meme where the first panel has the wojack saying "Sex isn't assigned at birth, it's observed", the second panel has some guy saying "Imane Khelif was observed as female at birth", the third panel is the standard blank wojack face, and the fourth is angry wojack.

Rosie (she/her)@airfriedrosie· Apr 24

*snort*

"Come in," said the ogre. He wanted to eat Puss.

Rosie (she/her)@airfriedrosie· Apr 22

I've had him blocked for ages but just wanted to check I was a registered AI hater 🫡

Rosie (she/her)@airfriedrosie· Apr 18

They'd be besties

A mugshot photo of a white, 51 year old woman with dyed, red curly hair and smudged make up. The photo caption reads "Whelan shouted 'I'm Jack Sparrow' while drifting away from police. The section of the news article visible reads "A woman who shouted 'I'm Jack Sparrow' at police as she stole a ferry was lucky she was not injured, the owners of the vessel said.

Rosie (she/her)@airfriedrosie· Apr 16

Perfect.

A post by Jay (you know the one) saying "Bluesky is made with AI, the engineers and even some non-engineers use Claude code" posted 30th March 2026. The replied to this post are failing to load due to Bluesky crapping out.

Rosie (she/her)@airfriedrosie· Apr 10

Elowen make up your mind

Elowen, a brown and black tabby, sits with her hind legs on a bannister corner and stands with her front legs on the lower bannister.

Rosie (she/her)@airfriedrosie· Apr 7

Saw a cool beetle today

I'm no bug expert, but I believe this is an oil beetle (either a short-necked or violet?). It has a long ridged body with black sides and an iridescent blue/black back.

Rosie (she/her)@airfriedrosie· Mar 31

Ron Swanson from Parks and Recreation. He's sat in his office chair saying "Today is March 31st"

Rosie (she/her)@airfriedrosie· Mar 22

Jenny Nicholson
@JennyENicholson

You know that thing where you disagree with a guy online and suddenly his vocab switches from completely normal to "writing missives from the revolutionary war in a quill pen" as though that's going to give him some kind of intellectual high ground

4:35 PM Aug 24, 2020

Jenny Nic...
@Jenny...

Aug 24, 2020

...

In the replies you'll find a lot of women knowing exactly what I'm talking about and a lot of men going "I do not see why one should not be precise in his manner of expression, I merely desire to clarify my intent lest my intentions be misjudged by hostile adversaries"

Rosie (she/her)@airfriedrosie· Mar 21

The squee I squeemt

A brown and black tabby curled up asleep on a mid-grey sofa. She's trying to cover her eyes with her front paws and you can see her black toe beans on one of her back paws. Her name is Elowen (I'm the only one who can tell based on her markings, her sister Hazel looks very similar) and I love her.

Rosie (she/her)@airfriedrosie· Mar 21

My wife is so based, she walked into a Mexican restaurant and ordered a meal without spice.

A woman sits at a table forlornly gazing upon her Mexican food as she awaits her cheese.

Rosie (she/her)@airfriedrosie· Mar 21

A discussion about my aphantasia.

Friend: I can't imagine not being able to imagine
Me: HAHAHAHA
Me: I can't imagine being able to imagine
Me: Because
Me: I lack the ability
Me: To imagine.

Rosie (she/her)@airfriedrosie· Mar 16

It's because they all take photos like this and don't understand flattering angles

A boomer-style selfie of me looking tired with no make up. The photo is taken of me looking slightly down at the camera, which is positioned low. My face sits at the bottom of the frame. I have strawberry blonde hair, fair skin, and blue eyes.

Rosie (she/her)@airfriedrosie· Mar 14

Omg fur babyyy

Hazel, my brown and black tabby, laying in my arms like a baby (I'm wearing a cornflower blue jumper). She has one paw held up and she's fast asleep

Rosie (she/her)@airfriedrosie· Mar 9

Ah, you can go ahead and ignore anything Andrew says about the state of trans rights in the UK (or, indeed, anywhere). He's been added to the "A Very British Bigotry" blocklist, a very reliable list of people who have posted transphobic comments on here.