When your brain works differently, AI isn’t a luxury—it’s accessibility | Amazon Web Services
AI as accessibility: what happened when a neurodivergent solutions architect stopped fighting his brain and started building.
In this post, I share how AI serves as an accessibility tool for neurodivergent professionals. The system is built on Amazon Quick on your desktop, an AI-powered desktop and web assistant that compensates for executive function gaps every day. I also share questions to help you identify where AI could support yours. Approximately 15–20 percent of the UK adult population is neurodivergent, according to research from Birkbeck, University of London. Most AI productivity tooling still assumes neurotypical brains. Email triage, prioritization, and follow-up management consume disproportionate cognitive energy for neurodivergent professionals compared to the technical work itself.
I have AuDHD (co-occurring autism and ADHD). My brain is excellent at pattern recognition, deep analytical thinking, and creative problem-solving. It’s terrible at remembering what happened yesterday, deciding what to do next, switching between...
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