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original user: @nothereanymore
> i donât know how long i was in there
> they donât really let you keep track of time
> lights never fully off, just dim enough that you stop asking what day it is
> they called it a facility
> said it was for âpeople like usâ
> people with abilities
> like it was a condition they could fix
>
> at first they were polite
> tests, questions, scans
> they told us they were trying to understand where it came from
> like it was something inside us they could map
>
> then people started disappearing between sessions
> and the ones who came back didnât talk the same
> or didnât talk at all
>
> they said they were trying to isolate the âsourceâ
> the part of us that made it happen
> like if they could find it, they could remove it
> âcorrect itâ was the word they used
> like we were mistakes that could be edited
>
> i remember one room that always smelled like metal
> and they would ask us to use our abilities over and over
> even when we said we couldnât
> even when it hurt
>
> they wrote everything down
> like we were numbers
> not people
>
> i donât think they were trying to help us
> i think they were trying to see how far it could be pushed
> before something broke
>
> i stopped using mine after a while
> not because they told me to
> because i was scared of what they were measuring
>
> last week they moved me
> i donât know why
> but something about the way the guards avoided eye contact felt different
> like they were the ones scared now
>
> i left through a maintenance corridor
> i donât know if it was intentional
> i donât care
>
> iâm writing this because if anyone else gets taken
> you need to know itâs not a hospital
> itâs not a study
>
> itâs containment
>
> and they are not done
>
> if youâre reading this and youâve been feeling âdifferentâ
> donât tell anyone
> donât go anywhere they ask you to
>
> because once youâre inside
> you donât come back as yourself
