Recoveryspeak as armor and currency
when he wouldn’t quit with the drumming at supper I sort of poked him with my fork. Sort of.
Context
The Program's own language already metabolized into a defense: the fork-stabber narrates an assault entirely in the idiom of amends and ownership and gratitude, "owning my part," ready to make amends, grateful to be here — all of it deployed to dodge a Restriction that would cost her an approved Overnight. The vocabulary meant to crack denial has become the smoothest available cover for it.