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Squint Harder

This started with the line, "You are becoming dependent on AI."

Maybe.

But I am also dependent on glasses, calendars, maps, medication, electricity, spellcheck, language, and the accumulated prosthetic stack we insist on calling civilization.

The real question is not whether AI agents create dependency. Everyone is dependent. The real question is what the dependency does. Does it restore agency, or does it capture it?

For neurodivergent people, AI agents can be access. They can lower the wall between intention and action. They can hold memory, reduce sequencing load, draft the impossible first pass, and help someone return after three silent days without adding more shame.

That matters. But the glasses metaphor has limits. Glasses do not collect your fear patterns, store your custody worries, summarize your shame spiral, or route your private life through a vendor whose incentives may not match yours.

AI can be like glasses in what it restores. It is not like glasses in what it collects.

So this is not an AI hype piece. It is not an AI panic piece. It is a piece about access, agency, portability, privilege, privacy, and the line between assistance and capture.

Assistive power with hard boundaries. Portability without vendor captivity.

Agency restored, not quietly transferred.