Autistic Heavy ChatGPT User Asks: How to Avoid Dependence and Repetition
allstarmode1 · reddit · 2026-09-30
An autistic user describes relying heavily on ChatGPT for life organization, IT learning, job search, and email management — but short-term memory difficulties cause repeated questions about already-made decisions.
- Concrete example: while organizing thousands of old ChatGPT conversations and Gmail, he spirals into meta-questions about the organizing system itself
- Seeking practical, tested systems from other users with autism/ADHD: rules to avoid re-asking, when to decide vs consult, whether to keep a separate decision summary system, and how to stop AI-organization becoming procrastination
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