Advocacy on Lanie: Faith, Tech, and Advocacy

No Home Base

Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There is no community that accepts my whole stack. Every space I enter runs me through a filter. Sometimes I get bounced on the disability check. Sometimes on the faith. Sometimes on the AI. I built Hermes Agent because I had nowhere else to go.

The Disclosure Trap #

I never know whether I should lead with my disability profile. The social cost is high regardless.

The Multiplicative Nature of Disability: Why 1+1 Equals a System Crash

Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Sourcing Note: The examples in this article are not hypotheticals. They are extracted from my own captured daily logs, technical sessions, and lived experiences. For a plain-language breakdown of the physical mechanics behind my diagnoses, see my Human Terms summary.

The Comfortable Lie of the Sum #

There’s a model of disability that feels mathematically tidy and is almost entirely wrong.

Blind, Multiply Disabled, and Pushed Beyond Capacity: A Personal Narrative

Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Content Note: This narrative discusses medical trauma and institutional harm.

Preface #

This is a personal narrative about my experience as a blind, multiply disabled student in a residential school setting. It reflects my lived experience and my understanding as an adult, informed by later medical and psychological evaluation.

This account isn’t intended as an attack on individual staff members. It’s an account of systemic failure, medical misattribution, and institutional decision-making, and of the long-term impact those failures have had on my health, functioning, and sense of safety.