Interoception Deficits and AI Body Cue Reminders
When you struggle to notice internal body signals until they become problems, regular reminders to check in with physical sensations can prevent crashes and improve decision-making before stress spirals. AI can send these check-ins at times when you're likely to actually need them—before meetings, after meals, during work blocks—making the practice sustainable rather than another task to forget.
HypatiaInteroception is the internal sense that tells you when you are hungry, thirsty, tired, in pain, or emotionally activated, and many autistic and ADHD individuals have reduced or unreliable access to these signals. This deficit can cause people to miss basic physical needs for hours, leading to crashes, meltdowns, or health problems that could have been prevented with earlier awareness.
AI systems can be prompted to deliver scheduled body-check reminders that ask targeted questions about physical and emotional states, helping neurodivergent users build external scaffolding for internal signals their nervous system does not reliably surface on its own.
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