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AI Gave Me Autism

Jon Mick, Lee Hopkins

I'm AuDHD, twice-exceptional, and I treated myself as a broken product for four decades. Turns out the product wasn't broken. The user manual was missing.

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  • Jon Mick

    Working memory fragility researcher. Twice-exceptional. 400 browser tabs. Building AI for brains like mine at AIs & Shine. Writing about the architecture beneath the behaviors you've been ashamed of.

  • Lee Hopkins

    Australian counselling psychologist, RAAF veteran, author of 40+ books, writing from Đà Lạt. The system is the pathogen, your response is reasonable, and the professions that should have said so are too slow, too scared, too jargon-bound to help.

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