19/07/2025
The System Protects Itself
The system doesn’t protect the vulnerable. It protects its image. And anything that threatens that image becomes a problem to be managed.
Pain is often documented; not to support, but to prepare for the moment it speaks. Assessments are conducted. Reports are filed. Responses are labelled as risk. A record is built, not for protection, but for control.
They choose who they harm. Not the powerful. Not the protected. But those least likely to be believed. Those already carrying diagnoses, trauma, or histories they can use to explain it away. They target the isolated. Those without backup. Those who’ve already been through enough to be discredited by default.
Vulnerability isn’t just ignored, it’s selected. Weaponised. Used as cover. This isn’t failure. It’s foresight. It’s containment, dressed as care. It’s called safeguarding. But when someone stops complying, when they ask questions, when they refuse to stay silent, the performance is withdrawn and the truth is revealed.
It was never about wellbeing. It was about reputation. About power. About keeping the story intact. Survival is reframed as dysfunction. Clarity is treated as instability. History is used to deflect from harm happening in the present.
What unsettles systems is not behaviour, it’s insight. Not noise, but the kind of clarity that only comes from surviving it first-hand. They don’t expect healing. They don’t expect growth. And they certainly don’t expect recognition, in real time, of what’s being done. But when that clarity arrives, it can’t be undone.
This was never about protection, it was about control but survival changes everything. Because once you’ve seen the system from the inside, you stop asking to be saved and start speaking to be heard.
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