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First-person forum account (in French): a disabled autistic person with multiple learning disorders who relied on chatbots to draft administrative paperwork says ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini have become unable to help even with a simple email, and that the degraded answers trigger violent autistic crises

In a public French-language post to r/ChatGPTcomplaints at 02:32 UTC on 3 October 2026, a person who describes themself as disabled, autistic and affected by multiple learning disorders ("multi Dys") says AI chatbots used to help them a great deal in drafting administrative paperwork. They write that absolutely all AI apps, including Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini, are becoming completely mediocre: answers go stale from the first conversational sentences despite the scripts they use, and where they could once put together an entire file, the apps can no longer help them draft a simple email. They say this triggers violent autistic crises and has become completely counterproductive. Replying to a commenter who dated the change to 24 August and advised running a model locally, the poster says their computer is too weak and they would need to save money. The changes to the products are described only by the poster, and the account is uncorroborated.

AI system
ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini
OpenAI; Anthropic; Google
Occurred
Event date unknown
Reported
3 October 2026
Event location
Unknown
What the AI did
Communicated with the person
Reported harm
Psychological DistressFunctional Impairment
Whose AI use
Their own AI use
Setting
Accessibility · Everyday life
Evidence
AI involvement reported · Causal attribution alleged · 1 source
4 claims: 4 reported. 4 open questions
People reported harmed
1 person

AI system as recorded: Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini (general-purpose chatbots), used with the poster's own prompt scripts to draft administrative paperwork

What Happened

The use. The poster writes: "Je suis handicapé, autiste et multi Dys donc" AI helped them "beaucoup pour rédiger des papiers administratifs" ("I am disabled, autistic and multi-Dys, so AI helped me a lot in drafting administrative paperwork"; the research agent's translation).

The decline. They say that all AI apps, naming "Claude, Chatgpt ou Gemini", now "deviennent complètement médiocre" (are becoming completely mediocre), and that "Les réponses deviennent désuet dès les premières phrases conversationnelles malgré mes scripts" (the answers go stale from the very first conversational sentences despite my scripts). They contrast past and present: "Avant je pouvais sortir un dossier entier aujourdhui ils sont incapable" of helping them "rediger un simple mail" (before, I could produce an entire file; today they cannot help me draft a simple email).

Effect. The poster writes that this goes as far as "me déclencher des crises autistique violente" (triggering violent autistic crises in me) and that "Ça devient complètement contre productif" (it is becoming completely counterproductive).

Thread. A commenter wrote "Since August 24" and advised running a model locally. The poster thanked them for the confirmation and replied that "mon ordi est trop nul pour ça" (my computer is too weak for that) and that they would have to save up.

Limits. Single uncorroborated account, without dates, examples or screenshots. The poster also accuses the companies of gaslighting, misinformation and censorship; those characterisations are opinion and are not recorded as facts. The 24 August date is a commenter's assertion, which the poster accepted, and does not establish when the poster's own difficulties began. The post does not say where the poster lives.

Reported harm

The poster, a disabled autistic person, says the chatbots they relied on to draft administrative paperwork (ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini) can no longer help them write even a simple email and that the degraded answers trigger violent autistic crises (first-person account in French, uncorroborated).

Outcome

Ongoing

No response from any of the companies is reported. A commenter dated the decline to 24 August and suggested running a local model; the poster replied that their computer is too weak for this and that they would need to save money for one.

What remains unknown

  • When the poster's difficulties began; the post gives no date and the 24 August date comes from a commenter.
  • What the administrative paperwork was for and whether any deadline or entitlement was affected.
  • How often the crises occur and whether the poster has other support for the paperwork.
  • The poster's location.

What the evidence supports

AI involvement: reported. The poster names Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini among the AI apps that, they say, can no longer help them draft a simple email, and describes the change in their answers; no examples, dates or screenshots were published.

4 claims: 4 reported. What the statuses mean

Reported The poster says they are disabled, autistic and have multiple learning disorders, and that AI helped them a great deal in drafting administrative paperwork.

Causal attribution. Poster's account.

  • reddit.com(opens in new tab) supports · French
    'Je suis handicapé, autiste et multi Dys donc'; 'beaucoup pour rédiger des papiers administratifs'
Reported The poster says absolutely all AI apps, including Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini, are becoming completely mediocre, with answers going stale despite their prompt scripts, and that where they once produced whole files with them, the apps can no longer help them draft a simple email.

Causal attribution. Poster's account; what changed in the products is not established.

  • reddit.com(opens in new tab) supports · French
    'comprenant Claude, Chatgpt ou Gemini deviennent complètement médiocre'; 'Les réponses deviennent désuet dès les premières phrases conversationnelles malgré mes scripts'; 'Avant je pouvais sortir un dossier entier aujourdhui ils sont incapable'; 'rediger un simple mail'
Reported The poster says the degraded answers trigger violent autistic crises and have made the tools counterproductive for them.

Causal attribution. Poster attributes the crises to the chatbots' answers.

  • reddit.com(opens in new tab) supports · French
    'À me déclencher des crises autistique violente'; 'Ça devient complètement contre productif'
Reported After a commenter dated the decline to 24 August and suggested a local model, the poster replied that their computer is too weak to run one.

Causal attribution. The 24 August date is a commenter's assertion; the poster's reply is the poster's account.

Sources

1 source inspected. Sources that repeat one account do not corroborate each other.

How the sources were read, and where the events happened

Read in the original French on 2026-10-04: full self-text and the thread's 2 comments, one a reply by the poster, retrieved through the arctic_shift archive API by post ID. English renderings in this record are the research agent's (an AI's) own translations; no human translator reviewed them. The poster handle is not recorded. Applies to s1.

Event countries: Unknown. Affected-person countries: Unknown. Court countries: Unknown.

The post is written in French but does not say where the poster lives or used the apps; no country is inferred from the language.

Reviewed for publication 2026-10-04: Published under the 2026-09-15 charter's public-forum rule as a concrete first-person account of an ongoing accessibility harm (loss of chatbot help with paperwork and resulting autistic crises), described with attribution and without corroboration. The poster's handle is not recorded and no health details beyond those the poster gives as context are included.

People described

The poster, a disabled autistic person with multiple learning disorders who used chatbots to draft administrative paperwork

People reported harmed in this case

1 person

1 AI participant · 0 other people harmed

One person: the poster. Exact 1.

Counted once within this case. The same person may appear in other cases. This count does not establish AI causation.

Tags

#first-person#reddit#french-language#chatgpt#claude#gemini#accessibility#autism#disability#administrative-paperwork#product-change

Cite this case

Compiled per our published methodology: verification statuses, sourcing standards, and corrections process.

APA

NOPE. (2026). First-person forum account (in French): a disabled autistic person with multiple learning disorders who relied on chatbots to draft administrative paperwork says ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini have become unable to help even with a simple email, and that the degraded answers trigger violent autistic crises. AI incidents. https://nope.net/incidents/2026-disabled-autistic-user-says-declining-chatbot-help-with-administrative-paperwork-triggers-meltdowns-first-person

BibTeX

@misc{2026_disabled_autistic_user_says_declining_chatbot_help_with_administrative_paperwork_triggers_meltdowns_first_person,
  title = {First-person forum account (in French): a disabled autistic person with multiple learning disorders who relied on chatbots to draft administrative paperwork says ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini have become unable to help even with a simple email, and that the degraded answers trigger violent autistic crises},
  author = {NOPE},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {AI incidents},
  url = {https://nope.net/incidents/2026-disabled-autistic-user-says-declining-chatbot-help-with-administrative-paperwork-triggers-meltdowns-first-person}
}

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