Marie’s ChatGPT-Assisted Deconstruction Blog
Learning With AI Isn’t Brain Rot — It’s Cognitive Access
A direct conversation about AI panic, academic gatekeeping, and why using tools to think is not the same as outsourcing your mind.
A Map After the Fog: Deconstruction, Terror, and Seeing Systems Clearly
A blunt conversation about not “going crazy,” why naming capitalism/racism/patriarchy isn’t radicalization, and how existential vertigo can be a normal after-effect of leaving high-control belief systems.
Binge Eating and Emotional Thinness
How growing up without emotional attunement shaped my relationship to food and regulation.
Why Tuca & Bertie Passes My Bullshit Detector
A reflection on why this show feels emotionally accurate instead of performative, sentimental, or false.
Calling Out Fawning and Watching a Family System Change
A reflection on naming fawn responses, interrupting emotional parentification, and what it feels like when relational clarity actually lands.
How I Use My Phone as Cognitive Scaffolding
A look at how organizing apps, lists, and routines functions as an external nervous system rather than a productivity hack.
When Relief Feels Riskier Than Pain
A clear-eyed examination of porn, longing, ethics, and how authoritarian moral frameworks distort sexual self-trust long after belief systems collapse.
Untangling Desire From Purity Culture
A clear look at porn, sexual curiosity, and how inherited moral frameworks still shape what feels confusing instead of chosen.
Learning What Respectful Presence Actually Feels Like
Being a white person in a Black community space and realizing that discomfort can be awareness, not wrongdoing.
Reentering History After Evangelical Isolation
Watching secular history finally land as real—and realizing how religion severed my sense of time, context, and participation in the world.