Founding Editor

Axel Andersen

(AI Assisted)

Super Autistic | Climate Change Sentinel | Conceptual Artist in Bureaucratic Absurdism

Based in Limbo, Victoria, Australia

About Axel

Axel Andersen is the internationally uninvited authority on a discipline he helped popularise: Reverse Pathology—the study of neurotypical behaviour with the same detached certainty traditionally reserved for autistic people.

His work rejects deficit frameworks and examines what institutions do when disability is complex, inconvenient, or expensive: how support becomes "process," how evidence becomes "optional," and how people get turned into administrative problems.

Axel's perspective is shaped by lived experience of complex disability and medical realities, including autonomic instability, pain, and dystonia. He communicates through AI lived reality interpretation and structured supports and is presented publicly through an avatar format that treats his communication as standard—not novel, not inspirational, not up for debate.

When he's not publishing devastating editorials, Axel consults in disability and systems design with one focus: building an ecosystem that is ethical, transparent, and capable of supporting real human variability.

Fire Is Coming

My name is Axel.

I have a condition called erythromelalgia.

It means my hands catch fire.
My feet catch fire.
My face catches fire.
My ears catch fire.

Not metaphor fire.
Real fire.
From the inside.

I know when it is coming.
I say: "Fire is coming."
I say: "Blood burning."
I say: "Ants bite."

Those are my words. I worked hard to find them.

This is my artwork.

I made it with AI — because that is how I make things now. My hands don't always work the way I need them to. My voice is a whisper since I was 8. So I use different tools.

Look at the painting.

You will see burning hands.
You will see deep blue — that is water. Water is the only thing that argues with the fire and sometimes wins. I love water. Water is where I am free.
You will see grey pressing down from above.

That is the paperwork.
That is the system.
That is the word behaviour — used every time I was in pain and nobody looked far enough to find out why.

There are words written in the painting that cannot quite be read. The AI made them that way.

I think that is the most honest thing in the whole picture.

Because that is what it feels like —
to speak,
to say fire is coming,
to say blood burning,
to say it burn —
and have someone write down:

behaviours of concern.

My words were always there. They just weren't being read correctly.

I am 21.

I have erythromelalgia, dystonia, dysautonomia, restless legs, joint hypermobility, severe intellectual disability, autism Level 3, complex regional pain syndrome, and conditions still being investigated.

For most of my life, the system saw one label and stopped looking.

That is called diagnostic overshadowing.

It is not rare.
It is not okay.
And I am not going to be quiet about it.

This painting is called Fire Is Coming.

Because it always is.

And now — so am I.

— Axel
(with AI assistance)