Emotional Circuit Board
How much friction does the system add before you even speak?
PANEL 1
Worth FilterAbout System Friction- This panel estimates how much friction the system adds based on traits people often get judged for.
- It does not measure your worth. It measures how often you may be forced to prove, perform, or self-edit to be treated fairly.
- Higher friction means your nervous system learned earlier that the world requires more vigilance.
About System Friction
- This panel estimates how much friction the system adds based on traits people often get judged for.
- It does not measure your worth. It measures how often you may be forced to prove, perform, or self-edit to be treated fairly.
- Higher friction means your nervous system learned earlier that the world requires more vigilance.
What assumptions did the system make about you before you even spoke?
What this measures
- •Age changes how you are perceived in work, dating, healthcare, and authority.
- •This slider models social bias, not your maturity.
- •In some groups, the "allowed range" is narrower and more punishing.
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What this measures
- •This models how gendered expectations shape safety, respect, and credibility.
- •It is about how the system treats you, not who you are inside.
What this measures
- •This models friction that can appear when your identity does not match what others expect.
- •The cost is often misrecognition, policing, or having to explain yourself.
What this measures
- •This models how safe it was to be seen, open, and ordinary without consequences.
- •Higher friction often means more scanning, more hiding, more social risk.
What this measures
- •This models colorism and racialized treatment across institutions.
- •It affects how often people assume threat, competence, innocence, or "belonging."
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What this measures
- •Class affects access to safety, education, stability, networks, and second chances.
- •It also affects how "trustworthy" or "capable" people assume you are.
What this measures
- •This models passport privilege, migration bias, and global inequality.
- •It affects how much the world assumes you are "legitimate" or "replaceable."
What this measures
- •This models how much you are rewarded for fitting the "normal" social operating system.
- •More friction often means masking, misunderstandings, and being misread as difficult.
What this measures
- •This models accessibility, bias, and the extra labor of navigating a world not designed for you.
- •It can also affect how people assume competence or value.
Significant limitationsFull ability
What this measures
- •Trauma can increase friction indirectly because it can affect energy, trust, boundaries, and focus.
- •This is not blame. It is acknowledging load.
Societal Friction Meter
22What this measures
- •This estimate reflects how often you may face extra resistance in institutions and social systems.
- •Higher friction often means you must do more to get the same outcome.
- •This is describing the system, not you.
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Low friction: Many spaces assume you belong. You can move without explaining yourself.
This meter measures systemic friction, not your worth.
This tool is for self-reflection and education, not diagnosis.