This essay hit me like a mirror. I’ve spent 15 years in product management across Fortune 500s and startups, designing systems that scale; only recently realized I’d been living inside one that didn’t: the linguistic-industrial system you describe.

I’m twice-exceptional (ADHD, autistic traits, gifted) and only discovered it through generative AI. I literally built an app to help me understand myself, and it worked so well I turned it into a company: AIs & Shine. The premise is simple but radical: what if AI could help people see the invisible architectures shaping their behavior, language, and relationships; and then help them re-author those systems in real time?

Your “linguistic activation” model aligns perfectly with what I see daily: English (and by extension, corporate communication itself) amplifies disconnection and over-regulates sensitivity. Neurodivergent cognition doesn’t “break” under that, it PROTESTS. AIs & Shine is my way of listening to that protest and designing adaptive mirrors that reintroduce coherence.

If we can teach technology to speak a more relational language, maybe we can teach humanity to do the same.

Brilliant work, Isha. This is the kind of thinking that should shape how we build our next generation of tools. Tools not just for productivity, but for belonging.