I have been dyslexic my whole life.
Not the mild version. The version where your brain runs faster than your hands, where you lose half a thought between thinking it and writing it. The version where you re-read a paragraph four times and still miss a word. The version where you have built an entire career partly by finding workarounds and partly by working harder to compensate for the gap.
I tried AI because everyone was talking about it. I expected a slightly smarter search engine.
What I found was something that understood what I was trying to say before I had properly said it.
I use a tool called Plaud.ai. It records everything I say, meetings, voice memos, thinking-out-loud sessions in the car. It transcribes them. Those transcripts feed into my AI system, which structures what I said, extracts what matters, routes it where it needs to go.
What this means in practice: I talk. Everything else happens.
Meeting notes appear. Follow-ups get drafted. My thinking gets documented in writing, which is the format the professional world requires, by a system that is not limited by the speed at which I can type or the reliability of my hand-to-page translation.
I want to be careful not to overstate this. It breaks. The transcripts are sometimes wrong. The AI misses things I forget to tell it. There is real work involved.
But the basic premise, that I can operate almost entirely through speech, and have the written world of professional life handled around me, is now largely true.
For a dyslexic professional, that is not a minor productivity improvement. It is a structurally different way of working.
Curious if anyone else has found this. Would genuinely like to hear from other neurodiverse professionals using AI.