Friday’s meeting slipped through your fingers until you opened Excel at midnight. Row by row, you rebuilt who said what, when. The shortfall you flagged. The nod he gave. The action items he walked out with that had started in your head.
This wasn’t therapy. It was documentation. Because memory can be doubted, but formulas can’t. The Silence Tax isn’t always the extra work you do: sometimes it’s the record you’re forced to keep so no one can erase what happened.
This is exhausting. You're not imagining it.
Content Notice
Documentation, not confession.
Patterns preserved, details altered.
If it sounds familiar, it is. That's the point.
Language left intact. Adult themes unavoidable.
This record exists for documentation only.
It is not therapy, not advice, not a solution.
No repair. No community. Recognition is the record.
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