Maddie Alexander Grout

So I, although I'm an ADHD coach, I specialize in money and business.

So I do a lot of like, here's how you can like apply for a grant that you're entitled to if you're disabled, which is called Access to Work.

And essentially, the government don't like people signposting to things that they have to pay for.

So I got...

quite a few big videos like quite a few big viral videos which were like oh you scroungers you benefit frauds you thieves like all of these things and it's like well actually um people are allowed to have benefits that that help them in their workplace because it's all about helping people stay in work not it's not about like having people out of work so they claim other benefits right so

so um so i do a lot of content around that and it was early january when um one of my friends sent me a voice note and said maddie are you okay and i was like yes i mean i found a lump in my boob this week but you know apart from that i haven't told anyone about that so you know apart from that yes i'm fine what's going on she said um you're on the front page of the telegraph and i was like

Sing.

I am famous.

This is fabulous.

Why am I on the page of the Telegraph?

So I went and had a look.

And I was like, oh, this is not great.

Sick fluences.

And it was like the rise of the sick fluencer.

So essentially, the press's narrative of sick fluences are they are people who persuade people that they are sick in order to defraud the government.

Which is, I mean, like, I feel like the definition is slightly flawed there.

So that was the first bit.

And then I had another friend phoning me.

And she said, Maddy, they're talking about you on LBC.

And I was like, okay.