Conner Sweeney Short Story

Conner Sweeney is a 19 year old bipolar and mentally ill Irish girl. Growing up in the U.S., she never really had the best childhood. She was always bullied on by all the other girls in school and had no friends. Since the kids in school never wanted to play with her, she would always play with herself and her imaginary friend, Marfóir, which meant killer in Irish. Conner had always shown signs from a young age of her mental illness, but no one had really payed much attention to those. As she got older, those tendencies of hers got more noticed. She would always be found having hour long conversations with herself, the walls in her bedroom were all scratched up as if a knife was dragged through them, she would continuously scream all night …show more content…
She would scream about her time at the asylum and how people who define Insanity don’t know the true meaning of it. The guards who reported about her actions said that they thought that she made up an imaginary audience of the people from her childhood and would try to convince them that she was no different from them, that they had a dark part of themselves but kept it hidden, while she embraced it for what it was and chose to act on it. After five years at the asylum, Conner couldn’t take it anymore, her motivation of getting back at everyone who made her suffer was so strong that she tired to escape, In her attempt, she attacked a lot of people and even killed some. The people working in the asylum had caught up to her and put her down. The ones who were present there for her death said that her final words were "It's when you do the same thing over and over again, hoping for a different outcome each time." Conner Sweeney's tale was passed down from generation to generation becoming the popular bedtime story that parents told their kids as a punishment to give them a