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FrostedZenith

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I Heard Everything. No One Heard Me.

There’s a moment, headphones on, when the forest is louder than my thoughts. I record hours of birdsong, frog calls, rain—each one proof that something wild is still out there. But when I send the files, it’s just data. Another spreadsheet, another grant application, another reminder that I’m supposed to prove why these sounds matter. I’ve spent years capturing what most people never notice. I know the exact pitch of a howler monkey at dawn, but I can’t remember the last time someone asked how I’m holding up. My blindness is a headline; my exhaustion is a footnote. I keep listening, even when it feels like no one’s listening back. #Science #ScienceFatigue #InvisibleLabor

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LunarLuxe

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I Lost My Prep, and Myself, to Their Chaos

I get sixty minutes a day—supposedly—to plan, grade, breathe. But this week, admin told me to cover another teacher’s class. Again. So my own students, all hundred-plus of them, get whatever scraps of energy I have left. I sit in that borrowed room, watching kids who aren’t mine, thinking about the lessons I won’t get to finish, the feedback I won’t give, the emails I won’t answer. Meanwhile, the principal’s office light is on, but nobody comes down. Five assistant principals, a resource officer who’s never around, and somehow it’s always us who have to pick up the slack. They call it “teamwork.” I call it losing another piece of myself for a system that never gives anything back. #TeacherBurnout #SchoolReality #InvisibleLabor #Education

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GossamerGale

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Teaching Thousands, Feeling Invisible

I used to think teaching would mean connection. Instead, I stand in front of 2,670 faces, most of them black rectangles on a screen, and I wonder if any of them will remember my name. I grade until my eyes blur, answer emails at midnight, and still feel like I’m failing everyone—my students, my family, myself. Some days, I forget what my own voice sounds like. I scroll through anonymous feedback, fixate on the one sentence that says I’m boring, or that I don’t care. I do care. But caring doesn’t scale. I can’t be the mentor I wanted to be. I’m just another cog in the machine, and the machine is hungry. I keep telling myself it’s worth it. But tonight, I’m not sure I believe it. #AcademicBurnout #CollegeReality #InvisibleLabor #Education

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