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My Mother's Blind Faith in a Lie Collar Broke Me
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Since I can remember, I have been a liar. That is the conclusion my mother made about me. After my twin brother, Daniel Benson, and I are born, she becomes obsessed with a so-called scientific parenting method. So, she puts a lie-detecting collar on each of us. Whenever we lie, the collar lights up in red. The moment it turns red, she presses a remote and shocks me. She says it will help form muscle memory to correct the bad character in me. Daniel's collar is always green. Even when he tears my mom's favorite clothes to shreds and calmly claims a dog does it, the collar still glows green. But I am different. Even if I just say, "Mom, I’m thirsty," The collar would suddenly flash a blinding red light. Then, a current shoots through my neck and into my body, making me tremble in pain. At first, I try to explain. But my mom always says the same thing. "The machine doesn't lie. You have to feel pain to learn. I'm doing this for your own good." After being shocked thousands of times, I slowly start to believe that maybe I am truly born a liar.
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Mom believed that if the collar were still in her hands, it would surely be blinking a blinding crimson red at this moment, and the pain would be an everlasting one.In the emptiness of space, I watched everything unfold.I watched Mom suffer in the psychiatric hospital, watched the crippled Daniel reduced to begging, and watched my ruined Dad drink himself into an early grave.And yet, I found no pleasure in seeing them get what they deserved. All I felt was a quiet calm, like stagnant water.Beside me stood an old dog. It was Max, the dog I raised when I was little, and the one Mom later threw away. He had been waiting for me in the afterlife.Max rubbed against my leg and barked twice, as if saying, "You shouldn't watch anymore. We should go."He was right. It was time to go. With how painful this life had been, there was nothing worth holding on to.I drifted to the door of Mom's hospital room to say a final goodbye.Lying on the bed, she looked gaunt, her hair completely g
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Late that night, Mom stared at the red glow of the collar reflected on the wall. To her, it looked like I was watching her with bleeding eyes.On the back of my notebook, she scribbled frantically with a red pen. "I'm sorry. I was wrong. Red means pain. Red means love. Please come back. Just tell me that you're in pain one more time, and I'll definitely save you this time."Alas, I was already dead, and the dead could not cry out in pain.In the end, Mom was sent to a psychiatric hospital. Her self-harm had gotten so severe that she almost electrocuted herself at home. The community intervened and had her forcibly admitted.She became the strangest patient there.Somehow, she got hold of a red plastic ring and wore it around her neck as her collar. Anyone who tried to remove it would be met with frantic biting, as if she had gone rabid. "Don't touch my collar! Irene is watching! She'll be mad if you take it off!"Over time, she developed a frightening conditioned response. When
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The officer continued, "I want to be an ordinary child. I want to eat the pulled pork you make."Mom stared at the plastic parts. The "honest green light" she had believed in so deeply turned out to be nothing more than a cheap toy.Because of this toy, she had spoiled Daniel for ten years, and because of that damned red light, she tortured me for ten years.Mom started laughing. It was a harsh, eerie laugh that sounded ugly. "It's fake… All of it is fake… I killed my most honest child and spoiled a liar."This time, she truly did lose her mind. My death became the city's most talked-about news.The kind-hearted but gossipy Felicia posted everything she saw that day online. The chilling title read, "The Girl Electrocuted to Death by a Pseudoscientific Collar".The article gave a detailed account of my body's condition and the collar that was stuck to my flesh.That single post sparked a massive wave of outrage across the internet.When Mom's identity was exposed, countless curs
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The police officer continued to read, "When she saw the blood, she said I was using tomato juice to pretend I was sick, and then she shocked me for another ten minutes."Mom covered her mouth, her whole body shaking violently.That night, she really had thought it was tomato juice. Without even taking a closer look at what I was coughing up, she just turned around and went to tell Daniel a bedtime story.It turned out that what she saw was blood caused by severe swelling and injury in the throat.The officer turned to another page. "On Mother's Day, Daniel cut up Mom's dress. Since Daniel's heart rate was low, his light was green."I was afraid that I would be hit, so I quickly tried to explain the situation, but my light turned red. Mom shocked me for ten minutes. The setting was turned to level five."It hurt so much, but I didn't cry. Crying would only make my heart beat faster. Mom would only think that I was being defiant and would shock me even more."So I held my breath a
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I floated in front of Dad, waving frantically, trying to get his attention.Just as his hand rested on the doorknob, the shrill sound of a phone ringing cut through the air. Dad's boss was calling.When he answered the call, he went pale instantly. "What? The server crashed? Okay, okay! I'll be th
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Daniel added, "Irene is always lying. She's even lying in her sleep!"Mom patted Daniel's head, her voice turning gentle. "Our Danny's such a good boy. Leave her be. She can lie there all she wants. Let's see if she can stay like that forever."Dad looked in from the doorway. "Should we carry her
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I watched Mom turn and walk away.Poking his head round the door, Daniel stuck his tongue out at me. "Bye, Irene. We're going to watch the super pretty fireworks now."The collar around his neck was glowing bright green. What a nice color…With a bang, the door slammed shut. The sound of the do
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On Christmas Day, my mother was getting ready to take my brother, Daniel Benson, to watch the fireworks when I felt a sudden, violent pain in my stomach.I curled up on the floor, breaking out into a cold sweat."Mom… Help me… My stomach hurts…"My voice was shaking, but the collar around my neck
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