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AI is tearing down barriers for disabled people, and quietly building new ones. Which one it does is a choice, and ours is included. It would be dishonest to start anywhere but here: for many disabled people, AI has changed daily life for the better, and not in a small way. It can describe a room to someone who cannot see it. It can simplify a dense page for someone for whom dense pages are a wall. It can take a task that arrives as one impossible block and break it into step

On writing things down, and trusting they will be kept, and come back, when you need them. Someone is anxious about a thing that hasn't happened yet. An appointment next week. A visit. A trip. The kind of thing that has no shape yet, just a date and a feeling. The anxiety isn't about any single part of it. It's about all of it at once, held in the head, with nowhere to set it down. Then they write it down. A few lines. What happens first. What comes after that. Where to be an

On the people around the user, the question parents don’t say out loud, and the kind of dependency that frees everyone. After many conversations with neurodivergent people and their families, I noticed something that rarely makes it into the conversation, the research, or the room where the problem is being solved. The other pattern that was more in the room around the neurodivergent person, not so much about them. A parent who had become a reminder system. A partner who had

Why watching the same film, reading the same book, eating the same meal, and wearing the same sweater is not a limitation. It is regulation. A relative of mine has watched the same series maybe ten times. Not ten episodes. Ten times through. She knows every line. She puts it on the way other people put on a heating pad. She doesn't apologise for it, and she doesn't explain it. People in her life kept suggesting new shows. Algorithms kept suggesting new shows. The culture arou