my little dirty corner

When he was 15, he was given a clinical diagnosis. “‘He’s minor psychotic, schizophrenic with psychopathic tendencies.’ That was a doctor’s opinion of me,” says Hardy, taking a deep drag on his vape. “Which was fucking amazing. That’s a heavy fucking label for a 15-year-old. And it’s a bullshit label. I smoked a bit of weed and I had antisocial behaviour and I was hurting, and maybe I acted out in front of the doctor to get a reaction. Or I was feeling frightened, or feeling judged, and it was a cry for help, which comes out the side of your neck, like a toddler, but it happened as a teenager, and the next thing you’re in the shit. And then how are you going to get out of the shit once you’re in it?”