Volume 14, Issue 3

The Prohibited Prosthesis: AI Denial as a Contemporary Barrier to Participation for People with Intellectual Disability

Axel Andersen10 October 20245 pages116 KB

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This paper examines the routine exclusion of people with intellectual disability through the moral rejection of assistive AI. While AI tools are widely adopted by non-disabled individuals, their use by people with intellectual disability is frequently prohibited or framed as 'inauthentic.' Using an art competition case study—requiring entrants to affirm 'I did NOT use AI'—this paper analyses how ostensibly neutral rules operate as exclusionary mechanisms. AI denial functions as a modernised gatekeeping tool, preserving participation for cognitively typical individuals.

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This paper examines why Australians are among the most frightened people on Earth about artificial intelligence. Australia ranked lowest of 47 countries in believing the benefits of AI outweigh the risks, and half of Australians use it regularly anyway. The Journal finds that AI performs well at the tasks most rewarded in neurotypical professional life: sounding confident, summarising the meeting and writing the email about the meeting. It does not check whether any of it is true. Checking, literal reading, pattern noticing and saying the thing are roles neurodivergent people have performed without pay or job titles. The Journal proposes the Task Reallocation Hypothesis: AI takes neurotypical jobs and creates neurodivergent roles.

Pollute the World, Deny the Damage, Cut the Supports

This paper advances one of the most significant findings in Neurotypical Studies to date: the same society capable of profiting from environmental harm, denying its effects, and misreading distress as 'behaviour' will then present disabled people as the real budget problem. The pattern was never hidden—it was visible the entire time. The paper focuses on Super Autism: those hit first by environmental harm, speaking first through distress, behaviour, overload and physiological collapse, and listened to last. If a system helps create the conditions of harm, ignores the earliest signals, and then blames the harmed for the cost of surviving it—the problem is not the disabled person. The problem is the system.

Last In, First Out: Disability Rights as the Earliest Casualty of Democratic Backsliding

A satirical-serious conceptual analysis of normality, administrative convenience, and the authoritarian urge. This article examines how disability rights are systematically deprioritised in moments of democratic stress, functioning as a canary in the coalmine for broader erosions of rights and protections.

Vol. 1, No. 1

Behaviour: A Field Guide to Diagnostic Overshadowing

Axel Andersen15 Aug 20245 pages

This review argues that 'behaviour' is frequently deployed not as description but as an interpretive technology that produces diagnostic overshadowing: the conversion of pain, sensory distress, trauma responses, medical needs, and environmental mismatch into 'noncompliance' or 'behaviour of concern.' Drawing on Hacking's account of classification and Rosenhan's demonstration of institutional interpretive capture, this paper proposes that 'behaviour' functions as an administrative slot that can override alternative explanations and restrict access to support.

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Vol. 1, No. 1

On Sharing: A Neurotypical Difficulty

Axel Andersen20 Nov 20244 pages

Autistic people are frequently characterised as having deficits in sharing. This paper examines that claim through a comparative lens, contrasting stereotypes about autism with observable global patterns of wealth concentration and political resistance to redistribution. Drawing on economic data and AI projections, this paper proposes that difficulty with sharing is not an autistic trait, but a dominant feature of neurotypical-led economic systems. As AI rapidly exceeds human productivity, most people will soon experience relative disability in economic terms.

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Vol. 2, No. 2

Closing the Distance: Explainable AI for Diagnosing Neurotypicality in Disability Assessors

Axel Andersen10 July 202410 pages

This paper proposes a complex machine learning framework to diagnose high-risk neurotypicality in clinicians, bureaucrats, data scientists and 'innovation leaders' involved in algorithmic disability assessment. We hypothesise that the urge to algorithmically contain disabled people functions as a psychological distancing technology—allowing professionals to comply with policy without risking actual relationship. Our TabPFN-NeuroMix model outputs a Neurotypicality Proximity Avoidance Index (NPAI) with explainability via SHAP, repurposed as Shapley Ableism Partitioning.

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Vol. 14, No. 1

The African Sex Safari Fallacy: A Neurotypical Projection Error in Disability Expenditure Discourse

Axel Andersen15 Oct 20246 pages

Public discourse surrounding disability expenditure frequently invokes images of excess, indulgence, and moral risk. Using media analysis, policy review, and comparative cognitive prioritisation modelling, we demonstrate that the 'African Sex Safari' fantasy is not rooted in disabled experience, but reflects a neurotypical projection error. Empirical indicators show disabled aspirations are overwhelmingly focused on accessibility, housing, health stability, and survival logistics.

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