Vignettes

Cases we may learn from — never as the price of help

Donors can fund free companion slots. People in those slots can later offer a vignette. They can also refuse, always. A learning loop that only the desperate cannot exit is not science. It is extraction.

The door stays open

A free support slot is care. It is never purchased with your inner life. You can refuse research and still get the slot a donor paid for.
If you later choose to donate a vignette, you can withdraw it. ‘Cannot refuse analysis’ is not consent. It is a door closed on a person who needed help.
What we may publish is a composite edited by a human: time of day, a pattern, an outcome the person named. Not a chat log. Re-identification is treated as a leak.
Crisis messages are excluded from learning corpora. Always.

Composites, not logs

Composite: the 1 a.m. bargain

Several opted-in nights, one city. The person names a drink. The companion asks for the next hour, not the rest of life. Morning notes: water, a text to one name. No diagnosis in the file.

What the loop learned: ‘bargain’ as a word that should trigger a smaller hour, not a lecture.

Composite: the closed door after meetings

A donated vignette, rewritten until the workplace vanished. The person asked for a note to a partner: sit nearby, don’t interrogate. They handed it over themselves.

What the loop learned: a note is only a note if the author can crumple it.