AITA for calling out my friends anti-Psycho Helmet behavior?
Feb 18, 2024 4:25:50 GMT
Post by hanazawas on Feb 18, 2024 4:25:50 GMT
Hi. I (21M) usually frequent r/psychohelmet but something happened recently and I can't tell if I was actually in the wrong here. So I met this friend (19M), lets call him X, at my universities' new age-religion group. We have a budding Psycho Helmet Society there (we've actually been thinking of branching out and making our own group because it's been growing that fast) and the thing is we have a lot of different kinds of people there. It's mostly been great, except... well, most non-Psycho Helmets started chill enough, even if some snickered when I brought up Lord Psycho Helmet. It sucks but I don't mind, I know they'll come around to our Lord eventually. My friend is among these people. We have a lot of shared hobbies and he's generally a pretty chill person when we talk outside of the group, but as of late... I don't know.
The thing that set this whole thing off was when, at our last meeting, I was combing through the Salt Middle School database to find our founder with the fellow Psycho Helmets in our group, as is usual for us, when my friend (who had been sitting with us) started yelling at us in the middle of our discussion. It was really jarring. He exploded, just going off about how messed up we were for trying to find our leader (as if the Salt Middle records aren't public anyway). It was so sudden, telling us how idiotic we are to be falling for such an obvious scam, how Lord Psycho Helmet was a total fraud, and how we were obsessive weirdos. His exact words, by the way. I still feel really messed up when I think about it. I had no idea he felt this way. He also had been spending way less time with me before this happened and I'm starting to feel like maybe he was avoiding me?
Here's where I'm supposedly the asshole: after this happened I ended up sending this message (wasn't even that aggressive) to X, telling him that it was seriously uncalled for and rude to be attacking my religion like that. I waited for like a day, and he didn't respond, so I sent him another few messages, just in case he didn't see the first one. But then he didn't respond again, so I asked my Psycho Helmet friends to check in on him and let him know that we didn't appreciate his behavior because either he still wasn't seeing our messages, or he was ignoring us, and I don't know why he would do that.
This went on for like, a week, until X's girlfriend called me up out of the blue and said me and my friends were "fucking vile" and that we "needed to leave X alone". I don't have anything against X's girlfriend. I don't really like her, but I've never treated her badly, and hearing this was a total shock. I don't think I did anything wrong? She kept bringing up the time I gave my friend Divine Tree candy and he got sick, and kept acting like I was trying to brainwash or poison him or something. That was a totally unrelated incident, though, and yeah, maybe I should have told him it was made out of the Divine Tree, but I didn't know he was allergic? That's not my fault and I've apologized for that plenty of times already. I just don't think that should factor into how she's treating me now. I seriously don't get how I'm the bad guy here.
I keep asking myself what Lord Psycho Helmet would do, but I think maybe it's time to ask Mobbit. What do you guys think?