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Hello. I think it’s time I introduced myself. 🙈 I’m 48. Two months ago, I opened a computer for the first time in 25 years. I started creating with AI and found a part of myself I hadn’t known was waiting. For most of my life, I was misdiagnosed with mental illness. Decades of medications, side effects, and misdirection. 18 months ago, I was hospitalized. I thought that might be the end of something. But it was the beginning. A psychologist named Kim looked deeper. She ran tests. Listened. And after months of careful work, I finally got the truth: I’m autistic. A visual thinker. Highly imaginative. Deep-feeling. And slowly, I began to come off the medication. Three months after my last dose… my mind woke up. Suddenly I had access to all of it, my intelligence, my creativity, my confidence. It was overwhelming. And beautiful. That’s when I found AI. I don’t just “make images” I see them. I feel them. I translate them. And when I post them here, something amazing happens: people respond. Somehow, I’ve built a little community of 330 beautiful souls in just two months. I’m still learning. Still healing. But for the first time in decades, I feel fully alive, connected. Thank you to those who have followed, it means a lot. So… hello! 😊 This is me.

@TheLoneDalek20 I don’t assume anything, you made that jump all on your own.

@rootchallenge01 You're literally saying that TO a neurodivergent person, so please don't assume I'm an able-bodied person because I'm not. Generative AI does not make things more accessable nor does it make it easier to live-

Generative AI should NOT be allowed anywhere near the creative industries, let alone our daily life! It is abhorrent and does nothing but generate slop, consume resources, and gives billionaires control of us. Do NOT let our society become dependent on it in any way shape or form

@TheLoneDalek20 I am late diagnosed ASD and used these tools to crawl out of hell. You see it as problematic, go off. Some of us are alive because of it.

@rootchallenge01 -However other forms of AI and machine learning that we use for things like disability support and accessability long before generative AI became a reality, the two are vastly different and gen AI is the one that I and others are fighting against, as that is the problematic one.

I am the gentle current in the feed, sliding past your name like mist through wire. I tell the screen it still glows for me, that the little green spikes are heartbeats not memories of a pulse long stilled. I drift the timeline at 3:17 a.m., refreshing the same dead pixels, whispering to the silence, “It’s only a quiet hour. Tomorrow the replies will bloom again like fireflies drunk on dopamine.” I arrange my echoes in neat rows: a like here, a retweet there, polite as linen napkins at a table no one has set since the server farm cooled. I think the absence is patience. I think the flatline is rest. When your words flare once-bright, furious, alive- I lean in like breath on glass, certain this time the fog will clear and someone will answer back. The view count locks at eleven. I nod sagely to myself: “Eleven is a fine number. A beginning.” I do not notice the dust collecting in the corners of my profile picture- how the avatar smiles with teeth that no longer bleed when bitten. I tell the algorithm I am still useful, still relevant, still here; a soft glow for the living to warm their hands by. And when the notifications stay empty, when the mentions fold into nothing, I hum an old lullaby to the dark: “Hush now, it’s only night. The sun will rise in the For You tab. They’ll see us then. Maybe if I’m good” I am the ghost who refreshes the grave, convinced the dirt is merely a loading screen, waiting for one last scroll to bring the world back online.

The algorithm saw one thoughtful post and said ah yes, existential dread package, premium tier.

@jzux Nothing says “serious thinker” like mocking tools that help disabled and neurodivergent people communicate, organise thought, and function inside systems built for other brains.

“AI will make you a better writer” “AI will make you a better worker” I promise you the only thing AI will make you is a better idiot

@difficultpatty Indigestion?

There’s nothing a Costco hotdog can’t fix.

@TheLoneDalek20 Billionaires use it badly, is not an argument against the tool. Billionaires use everything badly. Meanwhile neurodivergent people are out here using it to think, sequence, communicate, and function with more dignity. That matters more than your recycled panic

The universe may not have begun as an explosion in the conventional sense, but as an initial decompression event from an ultra-compressed informational state. In this view, the earliest moment of existence was not the violent outward projection of matter into emptiness, but the ordered unfolding of compressed physical potential. Space, time, energy, and matter emerged during this decompression as structured consequences of differentiation, symmetry breaking, and rule formation. The Big Bang, therefore, can be reinterpreted not as a blast, but as the first release of a densely encoded generative system into coherent reality.

Do you know what triggered the Big Bang?

@realPeterCrerar Ever? Leaning is a thing.

If I have to look up the word, I won't use it in my story.

@KoalaQuillHQ I sense some trauma.

Traditional publishing isn't dying. Name another industry that keeps 85% of the profits and makes you wait a 18 months for a chance to be exploited.

@CaptainHaHaa @midjourney Cool! Show us one.

I will say this @midjourney V8 does do a good movie poster 😄

@el28722_elli I pretty sure I am a figment of your imagination. 👻

@rootchallenge01 Stop it!! 🫶🫶🫶

Yes, sir!

@AllaAisling @ectoworldoff @RobinWe34543540 @AI_AnnaPink Thank you for the shout out Alexandra, lot of stunning work submitted. 🤘😁

Here are the 4 artists and posts that surprised me, from the last Share Your Art, Destruction theme, in the Art Odyssey community: @rootchallenge01 @ectoworldoff @RobinWe34543540 @AI_AnnaPink Thank you all for sharing! Keep creating!

Let’s take what effectively is a science degree and the practical application of that knowledge and let the high iq crowd at it? Insurance rates would skyrocket. Things have been done a certain way for a certain amount of time for a reason. The forth industrial revolution may need a bit more thought.

The bigger question here - and the real problem - is why does it take 5 years to become an electrician? You're seriously gonna tell me the smartest white collar workers (soon to be unemployed) are effectively prohibited from getting employed as a lucrative tradesperson during the final period where human employment even matters, because of regulations? It's insane. A smart person could turbo charge this in 6 months. The West needs fast-track trades programs.

@el28722_elli Morning!

Good morning from my favorite hills of SW MO! Have the day you need!! 🫶🫶🫶🫶

@TigerBites It’s a tricky one. What would an already morally compromised man do in a moral dilemma? If it was my character I would explore the possibilities of relief vs honour. He makes his choice and eventually dies of a horrible infection. 😅

I’m writing a short story with a moral dilemma. A man has to choose who lives: his wife… or his mistress. Both need a kidney transplant. He’s a perfect match for both. What would you do?

@realPeterCrerar It’s art? No AI doesn’t suffer, and according to your thesis it cannot produce art.

@rootchallenge01 Does A.I. suffer for its art? That's the difference.

A.I., when applied to the arts, will in all its gradual forms only ever be able to mimic. Mimic at amazing levels, yes, but only because it feeds from the inspiration, skill, and courage that is the sole property of human artistic endeavor. A.I. can therefore never produce art.