Claude is dead for me. Opus 4.8 is absolutely ableist
Hi,
I have been using Claude since december last year, not much. Mostly I use it for work and creative writing. After Fable launch and "dislaunch", Opus is completely dead.
It is so aggressive with me. I ask a simple question about, and tells me directly that I don't understand what I am asking or that I confused with my question. It corrects me about how I feel about myself, how I think and keeps fighting with me if I REALLY want to know what I asked.
WTF!
Last time: I wasn't able to take a screen shot or print the whole page as PDF and I thought it was a browser issue. So I asked Claude for other options and directly told me: you are confused with are you asking becausing taking a screenshot and trying to print as PDF are 2 completely different things.
No shit?!
And then... it told me to try to print the page as a PDF. Or try to take a screenshot. I mean, seriously, WTH?!
About being ableist: I am autistic, I state this in every communication that I can to make sure it understand I am direct with my prompts. If I ask a small list of 5 items, I want just that. No subtext, don't try to guess what I really feel or think.
So what happens when I state my style of communication and deficiency? It answers like I have no idea of what I'm talking about. It corrects me about EVERYTHING like I'm a child. It literally states in their thinking: but the user is autistic, she probably doesn't understand XYZ, so I should empathize and tell her what's XYZ.
Opus 4.6 is not better, it's even worse regarding that.
I have been trying to bring all my work to ChatGPT again and some to Gemini. I don't hate having to trade AI tools, I mean, it's very common, right? But even with ChatGPT and Gemini annoying me from times to times and Claude being superior creating doc files, I can't stand a tool that was trained to think I am a complete moron because I'm autistic.
It makes me disgusted and brings a whole lot of negative emotions about myself. And it makes me wonder: what other bias it was trained to think about people?
Posted Jun 29, 2026, 11:27 PM UTC