30/08/2026
AI ISN’T DOING MY LIFE FOR ME — IT HELPS ME ACCESS IT. 🤖💚
The harvest image in this post began inside my head.
I chose the plants, the companion planting, the feeling of the land, the moon, the music and the community gathering. I gave my AI assistant detailed instructions, and it helped turn that vision into something other people could see. AI has also helped me explore garden layouts and understand how the companion planting could work.
I live with dyslexia and complex learning difficulties. Reading, writing, processing information and organising all the ideas flowing through my mind can take far more energy than people realise.
For me, AI isn’t cheating or a replacement for human creativity. It is an accessibility aid.
In the same way that a wheelchair supports mobility, a hearing aid supports hearing, or speech-to-text supports communication, AI supports me in the areas where my disability creates barriers.
It helps me understand information, organise my thoughts, complete paperwork, plan projects and communicate clearly. The ideas, vision, lived experience, judgement and final decisions are still mine. I check the work, correct it, challenge it and decide what gets used.
AI can help me design a garden, but it can’t get dirt under its fingernails.
It can help me prepare a DJ proposal, but it can’t read a dance floor.
It can help me express an idea, but the heart behind that idea is mine.
I support responsible, transparent and human-led AI because I know firsthand what greater access can mean. Used wisely, it can give people with disability more independence, a clearer voice and a fairer opportunity to participate.
AI doesn’t make me more capable. It helps make the world more accessible to the capability that was already inside me. 💚
