Marie’s ChatGPT-Assisted Deconstruction Blog
The Physics of Epistemic Vertigo
A science-language conversation about what happens when a childhood worldview collapses: predictive models, trauma, culture, and why the “falling” feeling can be a normal part of rebuilding perception.
Seeing Forrest Gump After Deconstruction
Rewatching a familiar film with a new interpretive lens reveals how much history, ableism, and cultural critique I was never allowed to see—and how comforting it is to realize others have been naming these systems for decades.
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.