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AI writing witch hunts hurt autistic writers most

Ellsworth Toohey
Apr 07, 2026
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JA Westenberg — a writer, commentator, and self-described autistic person — argues that AI writing detection is junk science, and that the writers most harmed by it are often those with autism and other neurodivergent conditions whose natural prose style looks suspicious to the detectors.

The tools have a documented accuracy problem. OpenAI deplo…

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