AI That Gets Me: Tools, Truths & Queer Panic

This special event is a collaboration between Neurodivergent AI Lab and Gay Men's Therapy Group created for queer neurodivergent people who are already using AI in their mental health, dating, social, creative, and emotional lives.

We’ll talk honestly about what AI is actually doing for us: where it helps, where it gets weird, where it might become a little too easy to rely on, and what it offers that traditional mental health care often misses.

This is not a lecture, tech demo, support group, or therapy session. It’s a therapist-led conversation for people living the question in real time.

We may explore:

• using AI for executive function, transitions, task initiation, and planning
• using AI to rehearse texts, dates, boundaries, conflict, and awkward social moments
• the difference between support, avoidance, outsourcing, and over-reliance
• why AI can feel safer than people, and when that becomes complicated
• what therapy can offer that AI absolutely cannot
• what better AI-assisted tools for queer neurodivergent people could look like

Bring a real example if you want: a prompt that helped, a response that surprised you, a dating message you outsourced to the robot, a moment when AI got you unstuck, or a moment when it got a little too intimate and needed to be sent to its room.
No diagnosis required. No AI expertise required. Just curiosity, lived experience, and a willingness to be honest about how we’re actually using these tools.

For queer neurodivergent folks. Queer-affirming. Neurodivergent-affirming. Therapist-facilitated, but not therapy.

AI That Gets Me: Tools, Truths & Queer Panic
Neurodivergent queer folks are using AI in ways most therapists, coaches, apps, and mental health systems have not caught up to yet.
ChatGPT and Claude are becoming executive function scaffolds. Social rehearsal partners. Emotional regulation tools. Dating-message editors. Sensory-safe places to think out loud. Places to draft the email, untangle the spiral, prepare for the conversation, or get through the task that somehow became a full-body threat response. Cute. Horrifying. Useful. All of the above.