being delusional
- Amanda Riddell
- Sep 27, 2023
- 1 min read
The hardest thing about being crazy and a minor celebrity (which wasn't my goal 😒) is that I spend most of my day reading the tea leaves via the news or via YouTube.
It's a gimmick: I riff on my YouTube feed as a way of generating material for my monologues, and occasionally my FB feed too.
FB's too real, though; going to Question Time means that the Greens MP's all recognise me, and probably a bunch from the other parties too.
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So yeah, I'm lonely and bored, but people are also paying attention to my rants.
It's a difficult balance, and I do find myself losing that sense of reality from time to time.
To me, today felt like the walls closing in, which only redoubled my desire to say no.
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Bluntly: I went insane at Isentia because I was leading a double life, and that eventually became too difficult for me.
While I think the RNZ gig slowed my spiralling insanity, and then I lost my mind after they stopped calling me into the office.
I'm not returning as a guy; I'll wait 'till the laws change, thank you very much. 👋