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Continuous Accessibility Is Rewiring Human Nervous Systems

What Constant Digital Accessibility Is Doing to Neurodivergent Cognition, Attention, and Recovery

May 26, 2026
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I do not think we fully understand what constant digital accessibility is doing to human nervous systems.

Particularly neurodivergent nervous systems.

And I do not mean this in the shallow “phones are bad” sense that modern discourse tends to collapse into whenever technological overwhelm is discussed.

I mean something much deeper and more psychologically consequential than distraction.

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