I've been called crazy by just about everyone I know; family, people at school, friends, my then-boyfriend, his friends......
My mother, especially, used to tell me how crazy I was but it wasn't in a nice, "just kidding", way either. I remember in junior high school making a bracelet out of folded paper. You know, the kind they put on you in the hospital so they can identify you? I put my name and the name of the psychiatric hospital in my city because I began to think what everyone was saying was true.
It's funny that later on, I was hospitalized in a mental facility, twice, for depression so I guess it was a self-fullfilling prophecy.
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