Amber alert

Early records show that Amber couldn’t read. However, this wasn’t the case. Amber was actually reading too much into what she read. The way she describes it, when she reads books, she sees smaller books emerging from the text. When she reads these smaller books, they warn her not to believe what she’s reading in the bigger book. Her test scores weren’t measuring lack of comprehension ..they were measuring lack of credibility. These warning-messages persisted and began to change the way she perceived instructors and educators ..convincing her she was a test subject in some kind of mind-control experiment. Paranoia ensued ..disrupting not only her reading performance, but performance in other subjects as well. Somewhere along the way, a sharp-eyed therapist picked up on this and convinced her that she didn’t have to actually believe what she read ..just as long as she could repeat it on a test. It was an “ah ha” moment. She became an honor student. She graduated and went to Berkeley, fortified with the knowledge that she was entering an institution of high-rate disinformation. She figured the best way to protect herself was to get fully informed of her adversaries. Her instructors and classmates found her vibrant and engaging ..and also dead serious. Now idea-bombs, armed with mixed message, were exploding inside her head during lecture. She says she could see right through their masked attempt at mental subversion. Nobody took her seriously, and her friends, who were initially charmed and entranced, became frightened and distant ..resulting in her first arrest on assault charges. Undeterred, she volunteered with social service groups in the community. When they asked her to leave, she tried starting one by herself, modeled after her own beliefs. But members quickly disappeared once they saw her rational and seductive ideas turn into radical conspiracy theories. “Brain-dead zombies” was the way she referred to them. During treatment at an outpatient facility in town, someone suspected epilepsy. A functional fMRI was performed revealing that words triggered seizure–like activity in her brain ..resulting in activation of not only correct word meanings, but contradictory and confounding meanings as well.