(knocking)
Who is it?
It's your mom.
Enter.
Hey Orrin, can I turn on the light?
It's a little dark in here
and I can't see. We prefer it dark in here.
We prefer it dark in here.
My son Orrin thinks he's a cyborg
from the year 2050.
Mother.
Just calm down. You are disturbing
our operations.
We are receiving programming.
We are watching videos, we are learning.
Learning what?
About the future.
Orrin has robotic movements and his robotic speech.
It's a glitch, like he's a computer.
Your intensity will be matched
as we try to save you and everyone that we know.
He talks in a collective.
Everything is we.
He hasn't said I in over a year.
We are alone in this.
No one else was chosen to do what we are doing.
We need to, you know, save the planet from sudden doom.
Cyborgs are part machine, part man,
but I gave birth to Orrin and he is flesh and blood.
I also made lasagna downstairs
and I wanted to know if you could join us.
We are not hungry, thank you.
Orrin on the plane was astro traveling.
Every time I turned around to check on him
to make sure he was okay, he was zoned out.
Astro traveling is where he travels
to another dimension where he gets
instructions from the higher beings.
To me, it looks like he's sleeping.
There is an apocalypse in the future.
We have seen it in our dreams and in our visions.
Two years ago, he graduated from NYU Business School
with a 3.9 GPA.
This isn't the young man that I saw
walk across the stage when he graduated.
He's changed.
He wanted to come back home and I told him, of course,
with the understanding that he would get a job.
From that point on, it just spiraled.
We are still in that process of gaining full employment.
That was a year ago, honey.
That was a year ago.
Things do not happen overnight.
He was not looking for work.
Orrin is on his computer all day
and he very rarely comes down from his room.
Welcome to our headquarters.
I know that he's not a cyborg
but he believes he is here to save the planet.
You say this has been going on
for about two years?
Yes.
But when he's just around the house,
just hanging around, is he always in cyborg mode?
He's always in cyborg mode.
So he never just comes in, says, hey mom.
No.
In looking back, are there things that you recognize now
with the benefit of hindsight
where you saw atypical thinking or unusual behaviors
or identifications when he was growing up?
I never saw anything.
Did you ever notice that in times of stress
or conflict that he would seem to withdrawal
or disassociate in some way.
He started that once he came back home after college.
There was certain expectations when he came home
that I wanted him to be a part of,
helping me around the house and taking out the garbage
and helping me clean up and helping with the groceries
and he would just usually tell me
that he's working, he's busy
and that he's on his computer
and sometimes he'd ask me to leave his room.
But he would isolate?
Yes, he would be in his room from early in the morning
to four o'clock the next morning,
he would be in his room working on
whatever it is that he does on his computer.
You don't think he has a mental illness?
No, not at all.
If it's not a mental illness,
what would motivate this kind of atypical behavior?
Well, one of the things that he knew
that I wanted him to do was find a job
and he hasn't done that and so if he can claim
that he's a cyborg and so forth
and not have to enter into having a real job
like the rest of the kids out there
who graduate from college.