I put 'tea powder' in the tags of my academic preprint because my mother wouldn't make her own tea
so remember how i published that preprint about masking bc my mom said it wasn't real? well. she struck again.
context: 14, audhd, living with contradictory expectations. one minute i'm "too dependent," next minute i'm "not doing enough". classic autism household double bind. but THIS TIME it was about tea.
she randomly while i was finishing getting ready for school told me that i was supposed to make her tea. mind you, ITS POWDERED TEA. i told her she was a independent adult and could do it herself. she told me, and i quote, "don't remind me I’m an independent adult". i, as lore already could've predicted, made a preprint about it.
so i wrote an autoethnography about the "Independent Adult Paradox" - the simultaneous demand for autonomy AND dependency - and invented the Tea Powder Index (TPI) to quantify the absurdity. TPI = (Autonomy Demands × Dependency Expectations) / Time × Dissonance Resolution Factor.
the tea powder incident scored 4.0. there are three other manifestations documented. real citations (Bateson, Festinger, Braun & Clarke). real theoretical framework. real preprint on PsyArXiv.
the tag "tea powder" is now in a developmental psychology paper.
a moderator has to approve this. a human being will read "tea powder" between "parental cognitive dissonance" and "neurodivergent family systems."
my spite has become indexed. my spite has a DOI.
fuck NTs. make your own tea.
(edit: preprint is pending moderation. will update if they reject it for the tag lmao)
(post draft was made with AI but subsequently completely rephrased lmao) (is this some crucifixion level crime or) (lmaoooooooooooo) (FYI MODS i read rule 13 - and thus rephrased this entirely) (rule 13 compliant i think?)