Michael Ellick

And at some point I am back in my bedroom and,

that was now like a guest room or like my mom's office or something, this totally different place.

But I'm listening downstairs.

I can hear my mom talking to my girlfriend.

And I'm just, I'm not really paying full attention to it, but I hear her wheeling out this story that my mom loves to tell.

My mom has this story that she's told forever since before the accident, I think, the original accident.

And it basically is like,

that mom has this thing where she's like, oh, when Michael was young, he was a really sweet little boy.

He was a little angel.

And then at some point after the accident, Michael became a jerk.

And my mom could not say this strongly enough.

She's like, it's like he was brain damaged, right?

He just became a different person.

Now, that's not my experience.

And that's not the experience of my brothers or others around me.

They're, I think, a more...

What feels more true to me is that I got older, that I became an adolescent and I became more difficult.

And my mom didn't like me arguing with her.

You know what I mean?

And she sort of blamed the accident.