Awe-tistic Neuroscientist

I'm autistic and have ADHD.
I want not just a seat at the table — I want to #redefine_the_table for all. That’s my mantra.

I'm a PhD candidate in Neuroscience @Vanderbilt and an alum of UC Berkeley. My work sits at the intersection of research + advocacy + meta-science + AI ethics: building knowledge in autism neuroscience, challenging the assumptions baked into how science is done, and pushing for systems that include those most often left out.

I hope to contribute to new ideas and real solutions in the autism space through my research, my writing, and disability advocacy.

And I love creative writing, philosophy, and poetry.

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Awe-tistic Neuroscientist

New preprint: AI, Autism, and the Architecture of Voice

I’m sharing a new preprint exploring how AI systems shape whose voices are heard, whose are filtered out, and what it would mean to design AI around dignity rather than accommodation after the fact.

The paper examines how current AI architectures—especially those governing speech, communication, and interaction—often reproduce forms of engineered exclusion for autistic and minimal/nonspeaking autistics. It then proposes a shift toward designed dignity: building voice, agency, and access into systems from the outset rather than retrofitting accessibility later.

📄 Preprint available on SocArXiv
🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/eahjb_v1

This work is intended as a bridge between AI ethics, disability studies, and lived experience.

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Awe-tistic Neuroscientist

I don’t usually write year-in-review posts, but this one felt worth writing down—not as a highlight reel, but as a record of how a year actually unfolded. On neuroscience, disability, travel, community, and staying with questions that don’t have clean answers.
uniquelyhari.blogspot.com/2025/12/2025-quietly.htm…
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open.substack.com/pub/neuroscientist108/p/2025-qui…

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Awe-tistic Neuroscientist

Check out my new publication on an inclusive model of Neurodiversity that I called Neurodiversity 2.0. doi.org/10.1016/j.reia.2025.202652

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In the Thick of things.. Read on at ... uniquelyhari.blogspot.com/2023/11/in-thick.html

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