The Silence Tax

 Black Friday morning. The house is quiet. The holiday ran smoothly. And the bill arrives anyway. November didn't end for you. It just paused long enough for everyone else to have pie. 

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.

About The Silence Tax
What gets named, gets kept.
What gets kept, can't be erased.
New episodes Tuesday and Friday.

The Thanksgiving that collapsed under ten pounds of potatoes and one bad decision. You serve. They give thanks. The ledger shows the difference.

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.

About The Silence Tax
What gets named, gets kept.
What gets kept, can't be erased.
New episodes Tuesday and Friday.

The gratitude you organize for everyone else. Three weeks into National Gratitude Month, you're coordinating thankfulness for people who are grateful they don't have to plan it.

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.

About The Silence Tax
What gets named, gets kept.
What gets kept, can't be erased.
New episodes Tuesday and Friday.

We've become addicted to measurement. But the measurement never ends. Every solved problem reveals three new problems. That's the silence tax: doing unpaid labor for your own surveillance and calling it self-awareness.

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.

About The Silence Tax
What gets named, gets kept.
What gets kept, can't be erased.
New episodes Tuesday and Friday.

Forty people in their sixties share regrets. A man reframes their survival requirements as poor decisions you should learn from. That's the silence tax: being blamed for surviving.

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.

About The Silence Tax
What gets named, gets kept.
What gets kept, can't be erased.
New episodes Tuesday and Friday.

Yur body maintenance expires while you manage everyone else's healthcare; the system renames your triage as past due obligations you're failing to coordinate.

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.

About The Silence Tax
What gets named, gets kept.
What gets kept, can't be erased.
New episodes Tuesday and Friday.

You just see what's actually there instead of what people wish were there. The gap between what you see and what everyone else wants to see? That's where the loneliness lives. Right again. Alone again.

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.

About The Silence Tax
What gets named, gets kept.
What gets kept, can't be erased.
New episodes Tuesday and Friday.

 His clear yes on every decision. Then the office door cracks open and you hear it: "My therapist says I don't feel safe disagreeing with her."

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.

About The Silence Tax
What gets named, gets kept.
What gets kept, can't be erased.
New episodes Tuesday and Friday.

Halloween doesn’t just happen. It’s planned, bought, sewn, managed, and cleaned by the same person every year, the one who never gets credit for the magic she made. 

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.

About The Silence Tax
What gets named, gets kept.
What gets kept, can't be erased.
New episodes Tuesday and Friday.

The meeting where he forgot you were in the room, or remembered and didn’t care. “You know how it is with a bunch of hens in a henhouse.” The comment, the chuckles, the cost of staying seated. 

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.

About The Silence Tax
What gets named, gets kept.
What gets kept, can't be erased.
New episodes Tuesday and Friday.