Slide 1 of Lovette Jallow’s carousel with artwork by Alabi Mayowa (@shuta.bug). Text reads: “Why People Promise and Don’t Deliver. The promise feels good immediately. The follow-through feels boring later.” Explains dopamine-driven generosity, false accountability, and social reputation behaviors.
Educational slide by Lovette Jallow with illustration by Alabi Mayowa (@shuta.bug). Explains how people use promises for reputation management: offering gestures for validation, then disappearing. Highlights dopamine reward, false generosity, and how silence protects social image over accountability.
Blue-and-cream slide by Lovette Jallow with artwork by Alabi Mayowa (@shuta.bug). Explains how ADHD disrupts follow-through via time blindness and overwhelm but doesn’t excuse silence. Includes repair scripts: “I dropped it. I’m sorry. I can do it by Friday, or we close it.” Teaches that repair is behavior, not personality.
Orange-toned artwork by Alabi Mayowa (@shuta.bug). Lovette Jallow explains that autistic people experience promises as logic structures: “Words become planning. Planning becomes safety.” When promises collapse, the brain recalibrates meaning and safety. Quote: “Broken promises destabilize the logic layer.”
Why do people make promises they don’t keep, then keep interacting like nothing happened? That silence is the second breach. This essay breaks down dopamine, image, and cost transfer, with autistic and ADHD context.
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