Not Always Delusional

Friend: *picking up a spoon from the cutlery table* “Fork.”

Me: “That’s a spoon.”

Friend: “Fork?”

Me: “Spoon…”

Friend: “I wanted a fork.”

Me: “Well, that’s a spoon.”

(He stared at the spoon for a long time before taking it with him. At the time I remember humorously asking myself how he was supposed to eat his soup with a fork, but we later realised that this was the first sign of his delusions manifesting. After he was in remission I asked him what he thought that day. He just laughed and said he thought he could change the properties of things by describing them as something else. To this day he is still one of my closest friends, but he’s started showing signs of relapse. I showed him these websites once (NAR, etc.), and he goes on them regularly. It keeps him grounded reading how ridiculously people can act, saying some of his delusions seem sane by comparison.)