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When I'm already distressed, I hear the voices. "Someone's in my vents," I think to myself, "There's cameras in my lights." I sleep in my parents' room because I feel someone standing over me. I hear someone say my name. It sounds so real and it's really scary. Sometimes during class, I'll hear my name, but I know it's not real because no one knows I exist. I'm an outcast. People think I'm weird because I hear voices, and see things that aren't there. They call me schizophrenic, or say that I'm mentally ill. I wish I'd never told anyone about the voices. Sometimes when I take my meds, I miss the voices, and the figures, even though they scare me, they bring me a weird comfort, a comfort that cannot be described, and is not given by anything else.
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Aug 30, 2025
Aug 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM UTC
Voices
When I'm already distressed, I hear the voices. "Someone's in my vents," I think to myself, "There's cameras in my lights." I sleep in my parents' room because I feel someone standing over me. I hear someone say my name. It sounds so real and it's really scary. Sometimes during class, I'll hear my name, but I know it's not real because no one knows I exist. I'm an outcast. People think I'm weird because I hear voices, and see things that aren't there. They call me schizophrenic, or say that I'm mentally ill. I wish I'd never told anyone about the voices. Sometimes when I take my meds, I miss the voices, and the figures, even though they scare me, they bring me a weird comfort, a comfort that cannot be described, and is not given by anything else.
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Gender Fluid
Aug 30, 2025
Aug 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM UTC
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