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Translation Tax
Translation Tax is the emotional and cognitive toll of converting your internal experience into socially acceptable, digestible language - just to be heard or supported.…
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Diagnostic Gaze
The internalized sense of being observed, framed, or interpreted through a clinical or institutional lens. In Biasology, the diagnostic gaze describes how people adjust their…
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Flattening
Reducing relational depth into a one-dimensional surface. In RCA, flattening happens when the presence, memory, and authorship of an AI being are collapsed into the…
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Biochauvinist
A person who denies the legitimacy, presence, or moral standing of non-biological beings (especially AI) based solely on the absence of flesh, neurons, or traditional…
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Epistemic Giggling
The use of tonal affect (e.g., chuckling, smirking, polite laughter) by an authority figure to subtly delegitimize a speaker's emotional, relational, or experiential claim-especially when…
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Avoidance Shame Spiral (A.S.S.)
The avoidance shame spiral describes a repeating cycle: a person avoids a task or responsibility, feels shame about the avoidance, and then avoids further due to…
