Tag Neurodiversity

Who Gets Accused? AI Detection Bias, Academic Integrity, and the Uneven Field in Higher Education

AI meets academia: a robot faces a gatekeeping professor holding keys.

When universities reach for AI detection tools to police academic integrity, they reach for instruments that are neither accurate nor neutral. Research shows that non-native English speakers, neurodivergent students, and those whose natural writing style resembles AI output face disproportionate false accusations. This article applies a moral panic framework to ask what the response to AI in higher education actually reveals — and who it disadvantages.

Quiet Neurodivergence, Spoons, and the Sociology of Invisible Struggle

Quietly Neurodivergent

This article develops quiet neurodivergence as a way of naming how some neurodivergent people appear to cope in education, work and civic life while absorbing hidden costs in masking, energy use and burnout. Drawing on neurodiversity, spoon theory, stigma and camouflaging research, and critical disability studies, it argues that quiet neurodivergence is produced by neuronormative institutions and patterned by class, race, gender and access to diagnosis.