The Silence Tax documents the cost of carrying what you cannot safely name, fix, or refuse.

The decision you made at 11 PM about whether the fight was worth the cost.

The reality you held while they rewrote the history.

The meeting where you absorbed someone else's incompetence without flinching.

The explanation you gave three times, translated into language others could tolerate.

The boundary you paid for anyway.

The injury that got reframed as your personality.

Each Receipt captures one report of the cost, allowing the pattern to surface.

Listen to verify.

Read to witness.

This is documentation.

Not advice.

Not repair.

The ledger records what you carried.