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Laura McConnell ๐ŸŒน

@LauraFMcConnell

Advisor & consultant| Vice Chair Edinburgh Eastern CLP| member of Scottish Labour & the Co-operative Party| #Autistic| #ADHD| #deaf| Rep: [email protected]

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Laura McConnell ๐ŸŒน(@LauraFMcConnell) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Why do people queue up at the gate to board a flight that has allocated seating?
Especially when you are called up in groupsโ€ฆ itโ€™s not going to leave without you if you take a seat and wait till your group is called ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ

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Laura McConnell ๐ŸŒน(@LauraFMcConnell) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you have to mine people on social media to provide free content for your book then you have no business writing a book about us.

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Dr Amy Kavanagh(@BlondeHistorian) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Iโ€™m blind & I just had to say my voting choices out loud in the middle of my polling station.

Voting is inaccessible for many blind & visually impaired people.

Blind citizens deserve accessible, private & independent participation in democracy.

Iโ€™m blind & I just had to say my voting choices out loud in the middle of my polling station. Voting is inaccessible for many blind & visually impaired people. Blind citizens deserve accessible, private & independent participation in democracy. #DogsAtPollingStations
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Laura McConnell ๐ŸŒน(@LauraFMcConnell) 's Twitter Profile Photo

And the SNP have responded to this by declaring ยฃ28k earnings a โ€œhigher wageโ€ and creating new tax bands.

Crying about your constituents โ€œgenuinely strugglingโ€ while your party invents new ways to take money away from ordinary workers is unforgivable Kirsty Blackman

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Nobody I went to school with knew any Autistic kids either.

Six of us (that I know of) have since been diagnosed.

Western society first discovered Mount Everest in 1852. Iโ€™m pretty sure it was there before they found it.

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Laura McConnell ๐ŸŒน(@LauraFMcConnell) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Iโ€™m old enough to remember when this yin was one of many who pilloried me for expressing concerns about my rights as a woman of faith in Scotland.
Itโ€™s funny how things catch up with you.

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Laura McConnell ๐ŸŒน(@LauraFMcConnell) 's Twitter Profile Photo

And all of the Dyspraxic people of Britain, and those with ADHD where misplacing items is also a part of life, who have been disenfranchised from voting for the same reason as you are pondering why you would welcome legislation that you KNOW will exclude people?

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Itโ€™s because they canโ€™t say they are the party of education, the NHS, public sector delivery, ferry building, or independence.
Failed at every one of those.

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Cat Headley(@Cat_Headley) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If Forbes doesnโ€™t stand,I think she will start to hold the sort of mythical status within the SNP that David Miliband has for a certain type of Labour person. Her problem will be that if she does ever become leader,she will never live up to the hype that gathered in the meantime.

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Laura McConnell ๐ŸŒน(@LauraFMcConnell) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Mental illness is NOT the same as mental health, poor mental health, or mental ill health.
Just like everybodyโ€™s physical health can ebb & flow, sometimes needing medical intervention to get us on our feet, so can our mental health.
That is normal.
Mental illness is NOT theโ€ฆ

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