She's going way wayyy wayyyyy far [I Know Someone With Ptsd]
Into paranoia. She might be drifting into another world altogether. I can't watch her like this.
My mum.
But it's so hard to convince her when things really do look like it. Coincidence, I would like to believe. But all kinds of fcked up things have happened in this nbhd, from being constantly discriminated against for ~3 decades to almost being m.urdered, that she expects no less than a James bond movie to unfold.
Like yesterday, when we left our house to get into our car, only to find the boy on the bike and his mum staring at us, and even though they were ready to leave, waited for us to get into the car, settle in, put my glasses case into the dashboard, wear my seatbelt, unlock the wheel, start the car, and have a little conversation with my mother before turning the indicator on, backing up, turning the wheel again, and slowly driving off into the street...
And throughout this, my mother kept telling me not to start the car, not to drive off the pavement yet, because there was another car with its engine on, waiting on the closer end of the street adjacent to ours, across the main road, facing us, not driving, not doing anything...and as soon as I took a turn onto the main road, I noticed the the car also took off at the exact same moment as I turned, but not before the boy and his mum on the bike had ridden to the car, exchanged literally half a second of words(?), and then taken off with the car, in the direct WE take 99% of the time, but my mother had advised me to take the opposite turn, so I saw them drive away in my back mirror as I drove slowly, listening to my mother using this scenario as an evidence. She knows this car because it does this often. I just... Don't know. I'm so conflicted.
My mum.
But it's so hard to convince her when things really do look like it. Coincidence, I would like to believe. But all kinds of fcked up things have happened in this nbhd, from being constantly discriminated against for ~3 decades to almost being m.urdered, that she expects no less than a James bond movie to unfold.
Like yesterday, when we left our house to get into our car, only to find the boy on the bike and his mum staring at us, and even though they were ready to leave, waited for us to get into the car, settle in, put my glasses case into the dashboard, wear my seatbelt, unlock the wheel, start the car, and have a little conversation with my mother before turning the indicator on, backing up, turning the wheel again, and slowly driving off into the street...
And throughout this, my mother kept telling me not to start the car, not to drive off the pavement yet, because there was another car with its engine on, waiting on the closer end of the street adjacent to ours, across the main road, facing us, not driving, not doing anything...and as soon as I took a turn onto the main road, I noticed the the car also took off at the exact same moment as I turned, but not before the boy and his mum on the bike had ridden to the car, exchanged literally half a second of words(?), and then taken off with the car, in the direct WE take 99% of the time, but my mother had advised me to take the opposite turn, so I saw them drive away in my back mirror as I drove slowly, listening to my mother using this scenario as an evidence. She knows this car because it does this often. I just... Don't know. I'm so conflicted.
26-30, F
