AFM-2 · VOICE LAUNDERING
DESKRUNE
For when you come back.
The pattern: you ask Claude to clean up a draft. It comes back smoother — the punctuation is even, the rhythm is uniform, the personality is gone. You ship it anyway because you're tired. A week later your partner says, 'this email didn't sound like you.'
Voice is how the people who love us recognize us in writing. When AI smooths it out, it doesn't just edit the sentence — it edits the signal that you're the one who wrote it. Trust takes a small hit. Repeated over weeks, it adds up.
Hook by hook. If you recognize even one of these in the last week, this is the failure mode that's costing you.
When you catch yourself pasting notes into an AI: Stop. Write the one sentence that must survive unchanged—your core message, your emotional truth. Bold it at the top of your draft. Now change your prompt from 'make this professional' to 'help me structure these thoughts around this core sentence without changing its voice.' You've just anchored the output to your actual communication style instead of generic professionalism. The AI now builds around your voice instead of replacing it.
Every AFM hits four people. The ADHD adult living it. The partner watching it. The coach explaining it. The boss pricing it. Every kit speaks to all four — because the buyer is sometimes one of the people watching.
When you send the AI-polished email and your colleague asks if someone else wrote it.
When your partner receives a text that feels like it came from a customer service bot.
When your client shows you an AI-drafted message that has removed all their recognizable personality.
When your team member's communications become suddenly, suspiciously perfect.
Most ADHD-AI loops feel random until you can see them next to each other. Log a moment in the form below — intensity, time, AI tool, brief context. After three or more entries, you'll see your own pattern in the recap. Stays in your browser. Nothing is sent to us.
You don't have to be precise. The point is to capture enough that the pattern becomes visible. Future-you reading this in three weeks will have something concrete to work with.
Deskrune. For when you come back.