Oct 13, 2026 · 50 min · 10 segments
Two major UK reports on neurodivergence came out a week apart this October. Within days, one of them was attached to a BBC headline it doesn’t actually support. Kerri has a question she can’t let go…
I had sent you originally, just for the context, it feels really strange when I'm just talking to you.
I'd sent you the DWP Neurodiversity Report, which had some suggestions about what we can do for neurodiversity in the workplace.
That came out on the 2nd of October.
And then not long after we'd spoken, so on the 9th of October, which I believe was Friday, the Mental Health, ADHD and Autism Report, review came out yes which was a 600 page report about service provision in the uk or lack thereof and a very very interesting very validating very heartbreaking a lot of things report which the media ran away with in a really really harmful way and then I thought hmm this might be quite interesting to talk about with the context of do you know what in the last 12 to 18 months the UK has had it must be four if not more of these kind of major milestone reports about what's wrong and what suggestions we need and It's difficult because I think I was talking to somebody earlier.
There comes a point when, yes, obviously my background is research.
I appreciate the importance of an evidence base, of being data driven, of capturing all of this stuff.
I get that.
But at a certain point, when you have this need for evidence, I start to wonder what amount of evidence, what do people need to show or prove or demonstrate that will be enough for something to change? I'll
say the last part again, because I was trying to look up what the headline was that the BBC used for this report.
Young people describe unbearable wait times after review of mental ill health.
So
Which is, when I read it, confused me because I thought, What haven't I read? I read that report.
It didn't say that.
Exactly.
It doesn't say that in the report, right? Because I did not read the report.
I consumed a numerous amount of mini documentaries.
You're on TikTok,
yeah.
Okay.
The thing is though, like I know we joke, but at this point you have got a much better chance of getting something half accurate off TikTok than in the news.
It's ridiculous.
But I also feel like I interrupted your thought after you had finished your sentence, dare I say.
I had sent you originally, just for the context, it feels really strange when I'm just talking to you.
I'd sent you the DWP Neurodiversity Report, which had some suggestions about what we can do for neurodiversity in the workplace.
That came out on the 2nd of October.
And then not long after we'd spoken, so on the 9th of October, which I believe was Friday, the Mental Health, ADHD and Autism Report, review came out yes which was a 600 page report about service provision in the uk or lack thereof and a very very interesting very validating very heartbreaking a lot of things report which the media ran away with in a really really harmful way and then I thought hmm this might be quite interesting to talk about with the context of do you know what in the last 12 to 18 months the UK has had it must be four if not more of these kind of major milestone reports about what's wrong and what suggestions we need and It's difficult because I think I was talking to somebody earlier.
There comes a point when, yes, obviously my background is research.
I appreciate the importance of an evidence base, of being data driven, of capturing all of this stuff.
I get that.
But at a certain point, when you have this need for evidence, I start to wonder what amount of evidence, what do people need to show or prove or demonstrate that will be enough for something to change? I'll
say the last part again, because I was trying to look up what the headline was that the BBC used for this report.
Young people describe unbearable wait times after review of mental ill health.
So
Which is, when I read it, confused me because I thought, What haven't I read? I read that report.
It didn't say that.
Exactly.
It doesn't say that in the report, right? Because I did not read the report.
I consumed a numerous amount of mini documentaries.
You're on TikTok,
yeah.
Okay.
The thing is though, like I know we joke, but at this point you have got a much better chance of getting something half accurate off TikTok than in the news.
It's ridiculous.
But I also feel like I interrupted your thought after you had finished your sentence, dare I say.
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