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I felt like Linda Blair in the Exorcist.
I remember exactly, like, getting out and just like, standing there staring at the cameras, like, holy shit.
Like, what the hell is going on?
There's just a history in the US.
Of women being dismissed by doctors.
Hysteria.
It's all in your head.
Oh, my gosh.
You're exaggerating.
There is something actually happening to their bodies, something I believe is coming from the outside, the environment, somehow.
I could live with conversion disorder.
I could not live with the environment did it to me.
That, to me, was terminal.
You say Leroy or Leroy.
That's the great debate of Genesee county or even of Leroy.
I know you can't believe I'm still talking about the freaking name thing, right?