Autistic person climbing out of a hole thanks to AI
These are the small wins they don’t want you to see.
This is my Amazon KDP dashboard this month as a new author, on my second book.
And I’m all for others doing the same, and bootstrapping themselves to get out of whatever mess you are in with the help of Ai.
A bit of my background. Back when I graduated from university, I was never able to get a job due to how poorly I performed in job interviews thanks to autism. I could do the job, I just could not perform well in front of an interview. That and… I got burnout just by going to university. Which basically means you aren’t cut out for the rest of what comes afterwards.
This meant that my income was primarily disability benefits. And I didn’t like that. I’ve always been an ambitious person, it’s just that you don’t always get a lot of help to fulfil your dreams. I have a goal one day to finally get off this.
I feel like AI has changed all that, and I just use it like a support to help me achieve what an entire team could do.
I am sharing a small win this month, a small but successful launch for me as a new author and this is my 2nd book.
Here’s where AI actually helps in the process regardless of what antis are screeching about; the books itself were not created entirely by Ai (I collected the information myself for all of that) but Ai assisted with the line editing, the organic marketing, the emails, the cover wrap (I don’t just one shot my covers like a lot of the poorly made cover designs now on Amazon, but use it just like collecting images and assembling them in canva as a photo composition), spellcheck and grammar.
I have a bit of a motor skills issue due to those weird autism quirks and only type with one finger, so this was just not simple at all before, the chance to write my own book. I used happy scribe (another fantastic Ai service) to transcribe for me, my own words so I can write my book with my voice, and then just line edit with grammarly and Claude.
As a result of how smooth the process is, and how much I’ve fine tuned it, I now will be publishing 2 more books this year and I’m over the moon about it.
This is a fantastic example of how Ai has genuinely assisted with a creative endeavour which was difficult for me to achieve previously. Ai-assisted in this case, has worked better than my human “disability support” assists that I’ve had all my life that fell flat. This time I’m actually moving the needle.
I will continue to be Ai-assisted, because I am human.. a human with autism that has dreams but also has been through burnout way too many times to count. With this, I can truly look forward to doing it all in the future without burnout!