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original user: @nothereanymore
> i don’t know how long i was in there
> they don’t 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 “people like us”
> 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 didn’t talk the same
> or didn’t talk at all
>
> they said they were trying to isolate the “source”
> the part of us that made it happen
> like if they could find it, they could remove it
> “correct it” 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 couldn’t
> even when it hurt
>
> they wrote everything down
> like we were numbers
> not people
>
> i don’t 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 don’t 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 don’t know if it was intentional
> i don’t care
>
> i’m writing this because if anyone else gets taken
> you need to know it’s not a hospital
> it’s not a study
>
> it’s containment
>
> and they are not done
>
> if you’re reading this and you’ve been feeling “different”
> don’t tell anyone
> don’t go anywhere they ask you to
>
> because once you’re inside
> you don’t come back as yourself