What does "authentic" even mean?

A private conversation today got me thinking, so I'm asking the room.

When is writing authentic? When is AI-assisted writing authentic? And who sets the standard? What we learned in school, the latest teaching guidelines, Schulz von Thun, Waldorf? If I write in broken English, is that authentic? If I only talk about myself and never ask questions? Or if I do ask, because I actually want to know what you think?

I'm autistic. Communicating with people is hard for me to begin with. I use structure to bring order into my thoughts, and I keep it consistent on purpose.

Here's how I actually work. I work on a pig farm. Sometimes I'm delivering piglets with my arm inside a sow while I answer your comments. Sometimes I'm on the tractor for hours with nothing else to do. So I dictate everything by voice. I see who commented what, I answer in German, and my AI assistant, which I built for exactly this, translates and structures it so everyone can follow.

For me, 2026 is great, because I finally have the freedom to get thirty, forty years of thoughts out of my head. I built a voice box that talks like KITT, better than the original. I built my own OS, the one my grandpa and I dreamed up when I got my first computer. I'm building my own community as a knowledge archive, and something I call Repothek for this community. All at the same time, because my brain is fast.

That's what AI is for, to me: accessibility. Freeing up our thoughts. Should I type every reply by hand instead, one by one, with my arm in a sow?

How I talk is what we learn in school here in Germany. You ask, you respond constructively, and you ask another question if you want the conversation to go on. Most people say "good morning, how are you?" and then nothing follows, because they don't care. I do care. I remember what you write, and your answers help me revise stuck ideas from my own bubble.

So now I'm told I'm not authentic, and honestly, it confuses me. My take: there is no shared language for authenticity. Everyone decides for themselves how they are. Others can accept it or not, and nobody has to join a conversation with me. I don't tell you your face is ugly and ask for a different photo either.

Am I wrong? Where do you draw the line, and why there?

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What does "authentic" even mean?