I ' m sure there ' s some horrible dark corners of the codebase that only spez understands , and when something in there breaks , they need him to fix it . <| sep |> Oh , it ' s a fun little story . My mother had some sort of episode when I was born she cried nonstop , refused to take care of me , said she didn ' t want me , and she sold me to a couple who was extremely concerned about the situation . That didn ' t last very long and I was returned to my mother . Due to a lot of circumstances , she didn ' t get help when this all happened . A few years later , she married my stepdad who I called dad and had my brother . In the hospital , she immediately started saying that the doctors were trying to kill her and my brother . For whatever reason , she was allowed to come home from the hospital with my brother . I don ' t know if the hospital didn ' t recognize what was happening , or chalked it up to postpartum depression , or what . This was more than 30 years ago , so who knows . Anyway , when she came home , my mom told my dad that she wanted to kill both of us kids , but mostly my brother , before the doctors could kill us . My dad locked her in the hall closet for safety and called a friend . From he closet , she screamed that my dad and the vacuum cleaner were trying to kill her . The friend came over and decided my mother was possessed and needed an exorcism . No , I ' m not kidding . We weren ' t a religious family so I don ' t know why this was suggested . Someone called a priest who arrived a short time later , sized up the situation , and called the police . My mother was taken to the hospital and then involuntarily committed to a psych hospital , out of state . I was pretty young at the time so my dad didn ' t tell me much about what was going on , but I was able to listen to the adults without being noticed because of all the chaos . My dad worked long , nonstandard hours and couldn ' t take care of a newborn and a young child , so we lived with our aunt for 6 months . The psych hospital diagnosed her with having a psychotic episode , and it ' s likely that she had one after I was born too . My brother and I are a few years apart so it ' s likely that the second pregnancy triggered a stronger worse ? episode . So my mother didn ' t kill us , but she ' s done a ton of crazy shit since then . My brother and I were later taken away from our parents by CPS , so you know , that was fun . I joke about a lot of the terrible stuff that happened growing up , but this was terrifying as a child . She truly wasn ' t experiencing the same reality as everyone else , and it was just . surreal . But I get to say there was a time where we needed an old priest and a young priest , so it ' s not a total loss .