Living, As Performance, Unmasked | Somatic Dispatches 18
From the moment we're old enough to read a room, most of us begin a performance we were never told we were giving. Introjecting social norms. Sedimented into the bedrock of being. Feeling the quiet guilt of the black sheep who can't, no matter what, seem to become the white one.
Somatic Dispatch 18 is about that performance. About the cost of it. And about what becomes possible when you stop asking why you're wrong and start asking who decided what "right" looked like.
Hypervigilance isn't a flaw. Social awkwardness isn't a deficit. Special interests and hyperfocus aren't tunnel vision — they're what allows us to create what those locked into sameness simply cannot see.
If you've spent your life performing a self that was never yours, this one is for you.
If psychology hasn't worked for you, ExistentialNeurobiology may.
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