Mania as an Initiation to Manhood Part Two

My brother and I got involved in a "cult" in 1979 involving this strange woman and her three daughters. It was really kinda dumb. She would practive hypnotism on all these kids that would come there to her house and convince us we all had psychic powers. Most of the kids were abandoned by their families and one was this fellow named Andy. Andy moved in with me and Dad and Richard right after Mom left my Dad in 1979. I was 15.
Andy and Richard would take us all to Rocky Horror with a bunch of friends. One time in December of '79 I scored like a lot of pot. This dude just sold me all this pot for next to nothing. It was more than I had ever had at one time before. I began to smoke it on the way home and I never came down. I had achieved perma-high. A state I would become all to familar with later which was Mania. This was the begining of my Bi-Polar Disorder.
I need to say something very important at this point. Rocky Horror was kinda of terrifying movie for me because it touched off a very important exploration of my own sexuality that will prove significant below. The only thing you need to know at this point is I was BRAD. I will return to this anology of myself as Brad at several points yet to come.
When our Mom left Dad in '79 she didn't take anything he owned. He got to keep the house and all his money. She wanted him to be able to remarry and be happy. He did just that. Dad met Sue who became my step-mom (for over twenty years now). They met just six months after Mom left and were married in a year. I was put into the hospital in January 1980 for my mental illness. When our Mom left earlier that year my reaction was to bury my emotions about it. I decided I did not care about anything. It never occured to me that I could fail a class at school because I never had. It also never occured to me that I actually had to DO something in order to graduate from HIGH SCHOOL. I never did.