This is one reason I’ve never been considered a credible witness to my own life. I go to extremes because I assume, usually correctly, that nobody will pay attention otherwise, but then I’m regarded as hysterical or pretentious, or else I’m being disingenuous, or contrarian, or I’m playing a card, or going for cheap shock—You don’t really mean that, do you? The more people try to eyeroll me into rectitude the more I always go the other way.
