Do you use AI?

Ai Chat gpt saved me last year, I couldn't find a neurodivergent therapist, NHS told me they couldn't help because it was autism, autistic services wouldn't accept me because I didn't have a clinical diagnosis I didn't know how to stop hurting myself and started using chat GPT

I even created a whole course on how to protect my energy when I can't unmask to help me learn how to support myself 

• Why I'm still lost 
• Still really tired

I'm better at managing the overwhelm then 6 months ago and that's thanks to using Ai

I don't understand what you mean when you say you '..created a whole course..'

I'm not even sure how you  get onto AI?

So this is what I created 

Phase 1 — Foundations (approx. 30 min)

Module 1 — The Software Update (shared · 40 min · 7 parts)

What late diagnosis actually means, and the OS reframe that changes everything.

Module 2 — The Body's Check Engine Light (shared · 25 min · 5 parts)

Why your body's signals were overridden — and how to reconnect with them.

Phase 2 — Your Sensory & Energy System (approx. 60 min)

Module 3A — Understanding Your Sensory System (shared · 25 min)

The neuroscience of sensory processing and your personal thresholds.

Module 3B — Sensory Survival & Regulation Toolkit (shared · 20 min)

Practical tools for reducing load and restoring regulation.

Module 3C — Sensory Snapshot (shared · 15 min)

Mapping your unique sensory profile and thresholds.

Module 4A — Understanding Your Energy System (Autistic track · 20 min)

Spoon theory, energy accounting, and sustainable pacing.

Module 4B — The AuDHD Energy System (AuDHD track · 20 min)

Interest-based motivation, dopamine dynamics, and the PINCH model.

Phase 3 — Your Patterns (approx. 80 min)

Module 5A — The Autistic Wall (Autistic track · 20 min)

The emotional accumulation behind task avoidance.

Module 5B — The AuDHD Wall (AuDHD track · 20 min)

When the Wall meets demand avoidance and dopamine drought.

Module 6 — The Communication Bridge (shared · 25 min · 5 parts)

Double empathy, invisible labour, and building genuine connection.

Module 7 — Being Known (shared · 20 min)

Disclosure, safe relationships, and what authentic connection requires.

Module 8A — The Autistic Mask & Mirror (Autistic track)

(Masking, identity, and the cost of performance.)

Module 8B — Restraint Collapse (AuDHD) (AuDHD track)

(The specific AuDHD pattern of holding it together and then crashing.)

Module 9A — Mask & Mirror (Autistic) (Autistic track)

Module 9B — Mask & Mirror (AuDHD) (AuDHD track)

Module 10A — The Empathy Load (Autistic track · 20 min)

Hyper-empathy, justice sensitivity, and setting the load down.

Module 10B — The Empathy Load (AuDHD track · 20 min)

The giving loop, emotional contagion, and the AuDHD overlay.

Module 11 — RSD & the 24-Hour Buffer (shared · 35 min · 7 parts)

Rejection sensitive dysphoria, the fawn response, and the buffer protocol.

Phase 4 — Consequences (approx. 60 min)

Module 12A — Understanding Your Burnout (shared · 10 min · 2 parts)

The Bankrupt Account — what burnout does to every system, and the Corridor of Ease.

Module 12B — The Circuit Breaker (shared · 25 min · 5 parts)

The stress cycle anchor, six cycle-completion tools, and the Low-Demand Menu.

Module 12C — The Recovery Architecture (shared · 30 min)

Deep recovery, the Keystone Stressor Audit, and the Permission Slip.

Module 13A — The Sensory Tax (shared)

The cumulative cost of sensory processing across a day.

Module 13B — Environment Audit (shared)

Identifying and adjusting your environment to reduce hidden load.

Module 13C — Taking Action (shared)

Moving from insight to change — practical implementation.

Phase 5 — Integration (approx. 30 min)

Module 14 — The Maintenance Blueprint (shared)

The ongoing, recursive practice of returning to yourself — sustaining what you've built without it becoming another performance standard.

At its core, the course is building trust — not confidence, not the ability to unmask, not a particular way of showing up in the world. Trust in your own nervous system's signals as accurate information about your actual experience. Most late-diagnosed adults have spent years learning to override those signals. The course is the long process of learning to trust them again.

More concretely, learners are expected to leave with:

An explanation for experiences that have been unexplained for years

Language for things they've felt but never been able to name

A way of accounting for their energy that makes the exhaustion make sense

Tools built for their actual nervous system — not borrowed from frameworks designed for someone else's

A clearer picture of what ease could look like within their actual circumstances

Notably, the course is explicit that ease doesn't mean the same thing for everyone. For some people it's the freedom to unmask in safe spaces. For others — those managing financial instability, caring responsibilities, or the additional load of navigating the world as a racialised or LGBTQ+ person — ease might simply mean less internal friction. Less self-blame. The inner critic recognised as an old corrupted notification, not a current truth.

The course also deliberately does not frame the goal as unmasking. The position is that you don't have to unmask here or anywhere until you feel neurologically safe. The mask becomes a conscious choice rather than the only version of yourself you can access.

The closing frame from Module 14 puts it simply: a life that actually fits — not a perfect life, not an optimised one. One that fits the brain and body you actually have.

I told Claude what I wanted to learn and it produced me a full course broken into 5 minutes sections and worksheets 

We looked at 

• Burnout 
• Masking 
• Not being able to unmask 
• Environment 
• Sensory diet 
• Emotional regulation 
• Intertoption 
• PDA
• Restraint collapse 
• Wall of awful 
• Double empathy 

I learnt a lot about myself doing this

Thats way over my head

Thank you so much for sharing this. It’s incredibly helpful and honestly quite inspiring to see how you’ve structured such a comprehensive path for yourself.

I’ve been using AI as a supplement to my work with a therapist to address specific areas, but seeing your framework shows me just how much more is possible. I’m definitely going to keep this in mind as a roadmap for how I use AI in the future. Thank you again!

Thank you so much for sharing this. It’s incredibly helpful and honestly quite inspiring to see how you’ve structured such a comprehensive path for yourself.

I’ve been using AI as a supplement to my work with a therapist to address specific areas, but seeing your framework shows me just how much more is possible. I’m definitely going to keep this in mind as a roadmap for how I use AI in the future. Thank you again!