We Live in the Age of Emotional Misinformation

Let’s be honest: we live in strange times.

Gen Z is de-stressing with baby pacifiers.

Parents are being scientifically outed for having a favourite child.

And women with ADHD are still being told they’re just lazy.

This isn’t just chaos — it’s emotional misinformation. Not the kind you fact-check on Snopes. The kind that creeps into your relationships, your workplace, your self-worth.

The kind that tells women to be quiet, be grateful, be less. And I’m done with it.

🧠 Emotional Literacy Is a Tech Issue. We talk about misinformation like it’s all fake news and deepfakes.

But what about the emotional signals we misread, ignore, or distort?

• When a woman speaks up in a meeting and gets labelled “difficult.”

• When a girl cries and is told she’s “too sensitive.”

• When someone says they’re burnt out and we reply, “You just need to be more resilient.”

That’s emotional misinformation. And it’s costing us innovation, inclusion, and actual human connection.

“Because if we can’t read emotions accurately offline, what chance do our algorithms have online?

💻 Why Women Must Build the Systems That Listen Tech isn’t neutral.

It reflects the biases of its creators. If women aren’t in the room — designing the platforms, coding the logic, shaping the culture — then emotional nuance gets lost in translation.

We need systems that:

• Validate neurodivergent experiences, not dismiss them.

• Recognise emotional labour, not exploit it.

• Empower quiet leadership, not just loud charisma. This isn’t about making tech “softer.” It’s about making it smarter — emotionally, ethically, and socially.

🧬 What You Can Learn (and Unlearn)

Here’s your mini emotional misinformation checklist:

✅ Just because someone’s coping mechanism looks strange (hello, pacifiers) doesn’t mean it’s invalid.

✅ Just because someone’s diagnosis makes you uncomfortable doesn’t mean it’s not real.

✅ Just because someone’s contribution isn’t loud doesn’t mean it’s not valuable. And if you’ve ever felt overlooked, underestimated, or emotionally gaslit — you’re not alone. You’re not broken. You’re living in a system that wasn’t built with you in mind. Let’s change that.

💡 TechSheThink Challenge: Build Better Signals. This week, I challenge you to:

• Write a post that celebrates someone’s emotional intelligence.

• Share a time you were misunderstood — and what you learned.

• Design a tool, prompt, or poem that helps people feel seen. Because emotional misinformation thrives in silence. And women? We were born to disrupt silence.

🧠 Final Thought:

We don’t need to be louder. We need to be clearer. We need to be coders of care, architects of empathy, and engineers of emotional truth. The age of emotional misinformation is here.

Let’s be the ones who rewrite it.

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