Crafter: Doodapee
Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA), popularly known as Kennedy’s disease, is a rare, adult-onset, X-linked recessive lower motor neuron disease caused by trinucleotide CAG repeat expansions in exon 1 of the androgen receptor (AR) gene, which results in both loss of AR function and toxic gain of function.
What the diagnosis meant for me: I can’t work anymore. Early retirement: Disability. The fight to survive begins, also financially. I started to learn web design on my own. A friend of mine gives me a chance and lets me design and maintain his shop. He pays me what he can. But he is struggling too.
I realize very quickly that it won’t be too long before AI will “learn” everything I am learning, and it won’t be long before I, or anyone else for that matter, can just say to CoPilot: “Create a web shop that will sell my soul to the devil”, and it will respond: “Which method of payment should we add to the checkout page?”
When I was a landscape gardener, I was never the guy that knew all the plants and trees by heart. My employers liked me because I liked to sweat. And because I would often pay for coffee. And because I had a knack for design. I could look at a client, then look at the grounds, and I knew what to do.
Designing my friend’s website and shop, I realized that, especially at my age, I would never make it far in the digital world. With one exception. My analog content. My “handmade” images. (Almost) everybody loved them.
Then it clicked.
My soft aversion to AI.
Many talented people with disabilities like myself who want to work but find none.
“Heavydirtysoul” softly blaring in the background.
The concept appeared like a monster from underneath my bed: