I was briefly in a mental asylum for reasons (which I won't go into here because it isn't relevant to the thread) when I was 14 or so and there was an extremely delusional religious kid staying in the same dorm... er... I mean to say that he was delusional in the sense of seeing/hearing things that weren't there in a general, nutty sense, not in the way that all religious people are delusional for being religious in the first place and believing in... things that aren't there...
Er...
Well anyway...
So from my point of view, my parents had enough of me being a fucking weirdo and abandoned me in a place I felt I didn't belong, so, being a kid and feeling helpless, the only thing I could think of to do was to 'act out', as it were. I did a bunch of cringey/'edgy' shit, like drawing on the walls/furniture, throwing the ceramic mugs we got served our drinks in out the window (from the second floor room which served as our dining area) whenever I was done with them... stuff like that.
I suppose at this point it's as good a time as any to point out that this was way out of character for me, I'm generally a pretty chill guy, which only serves to make the next part worse:
The one thing I actually felt really bad about and which still bugs me to this day involves the religious kid. He'd mumble about how saints or demons or angels or whatever were telling him things, but he was an otherwise pretty sweet kid (from what I could gather). Still, one day, while playing
Uno, I decided to fuck with him. I don't remember the details, but I'd try to scare him by saying something like "
if the following card is an even number, you're going to hell, one of your saints/angels/demons told me", and then I would place down an even numbered-card. The look of sheer terror on this kid's face at once delighted and horrified me. There was a feeling of complete power and control over this poor dude, and it was exactly what I felt had been taken from me, and so I abused it. This guy unreservedly believed what I was saying, and it's only when you take into consideration what people like him actually
believe hell is like, that you realize how awful it is. I was also at the age where I was smug about my atheism, so I probably held his belief in contempt, and it wouldn't surprise me if a part of me felt like I was 'owning' the 'religious guy'.
I don't really remember how it played out after that (likely because I subconsciously try to reject the memory as much as possible because I hate that I did it), but he didn't stay for much longer, as far as I can recall. No idea what happened to him, or if I even apologized.
There's a ton of other whacky shit that happened to me in that place, but yeah, that is one of the shittiest things I've ever done. Thanks for reminding me, you jerks.
