Shamani of The Compassion Collective

Shamani of The Compassion Collective

The Science of Mismeasurement

🌒 PART II — WE WEREN’T SUPPOSED TO EXIST

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Sher Griffin
Nov 26, 2025
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Just a note before we begin:
what follows comes from my body, my lineage, my survival.
If you’re here, read with reciprocity —
not as a consumer, but as a witness.

How a System Built for the Wrong Mind Constructs the “Evidence” Against Us

When I look back at the day they took the reading prize away — the panel, the disbelief, the humiliation — one truth is unmistakable:

They weren’t measuring me.
They were measuring their own assumptions.

And that distinction matters, because Part II isn’t just about my story anymore.

It’s about the architecture that made my story inevitable.

This is where we shift from the wound to the system.
From personal rupture to structural logic.
From “what happened to me” to “what happens to all of us.”

Part II is the anatomy lesson — the dissection of a machine that never had the range to perceive gestalt cognition. The system didn’t just misread me; it produced the misread. It was engineered for it.

To tell this truth, we have to understand the science behind the mismeasurement — the paradigm, the tools, the biases, the metrics, the epistemology.

This is where lived experience and academic theory meet each other with equal authority.

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