When Machines Misread the Body: AI, Identity, and the Stress of Aesthetic Exclusion

What happens when the systems that scan us don’t see us? Not just metaphorically, but visually, sonically, emotionally? What happens to the nervous system when it is repeatedly misrecognized? This question has become central not just to AI ethics, but to emotional regulation, stress physiology, and identity coherence, especially for those of us who live […]
AI Bias and the Nervous System: How Machine Learning Reflects the Stress of a Misread World

AI isn’t neutral. It reflects us, our stories, our exclusions, our systemic blind spots. And for women navigating the world in neurodivergent bodies, with sensory sensitivities, alexithymia, or high-functioning autism, that reflection often returns as a distortion. We live in a time where algorithms scan our faces, analyze our speech, sort our applications, and even […]