> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://www.prrt2.org/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://www.prrt2.org/expressions/readme.md).

# Expressions

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Across the rest of the site, you'll find short amber **🧭 Foundation Note** callouts — brief asides where we step out of the plain reporting voice to offer our synthesis or lived experience. **Expressions is where those asides become full essays:** deep dives into the issues we believe deserve real discussion, written from experience and conviction rather than consensus.

## What this is — and isn't

These are **authored, dated opinion pieces.** They are not established medical consensus, and they are not medical advice. Everything here is clearly our perspective, offered alongside the science — never as a substitute for your own clinician, and never as a reason to start, stop, or change a treatment on your own.

The reference sections of this site stay evergreen and carefully cited. These essays are different by design: they take positions. When we argue something here, we'll point you back to the established pages so you can see exactly where our perspective departs from settled science — and judge for yourself.

## Join the conversation

Each piece is meant to start a discussion, not end one. If something here resonates — or if you see it differently — that's the point. You can take it up with the community through [Links & Support](https://www.prrt2.org/resources/links-and-support) or add your own experience on [Patient Stories](https://www.prrt2.org/living-with-prrt2/patient-stories).

## Articles

* [Beyond the Blunt Instruments](/expressions/articles/beyond-blunt-instruments.md) — on the lack of targeted PRRT2 drugs, and the real cost of the borrowed ones
* [How Many of Us Are There?](/expressions/articles/how-many-of-us.md) — the PRRT2 count, the invisible thousands, and the official number that's almost certainly wrong by an order of magnitude
* [The Expression Continues](/expressions/articles/the-expression-continues.md) — how the field's own reference text stopped calling PRRT2 a childhood movement disorder, and why "grow out of it" no longer holds