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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/Horror_Type_9814 on 2023-08-10 15:20:17.
I don’t use Reddit at all but I made one just for this because I feel like I’m going crazy.
I (“Jean”, 21) have a friend (“Patrick”, 21) who I’ve known for a while. I met him in my college campus around two years ago and it’s only recently we got closer. We’ve been talking a lot more lately because we’ve been talking about video games and stuff like that and he’s cool! Now recently, because I knew he was trying to get into movies, I recommended American Psycho to him because it’s a favorite movie of mine and I think it’s a great satire on 80s Wall Street stuff. What follows isn’t a JOKE and holy shit I wish it was.
Flash forward to the next day and I meet up with him for lunch. He’s wearing kind of formal clothing and I asked him if he had a class thing to dress up for and he said he just felt like it. I don’t care and we go on with the day. I had no idea that was part one of his Patrick Bateman-ification.It’s like for the next few days, he just TRANSFORMS. First I find out he’s investing in stocks, and the next I find out he’s trying to go to fancier bars to pick up girls and now he’s eating at way fancier restaurants. He IS privileged income-wise, but he was NEVER like this. He’s basically going on full suits everyday. And normally I wouldn’t give a shit, but it’s like he’s started to see everything as second best, including me. He’s been neglecting a lot of his hobbies, school stuff, and even friends that we mutually have.
He’s been talking to me less which I didn’t mind but when we do hang out, it’s like he dismisses some of my comments or interrupts me a lot more mid-sentence and not on accident like usual. When he says bye to me it’s like he’s hurrying up to go away like I’m annoying him. His excuse to leave a lot of the time is he’s checking on stocks and meeting up new girls or something.
I eventually confront him about this not aggressively but I’m like “Hey, you’ve changed it up a lot and I feel like it’s caused a rift in our friendship” and he then goes "Patrick Bateman inspired me to become a better person and I don’t think you’re someone I should be friends with.
I can’t lie I go BERSERK telling him that he’s just throwing away our friendship, and how he’s not gotten his priorities straight, how and Patrick Bateman isn’t even supposed to be a good guy! He’s not Patrick Bateman and shouldn’t be! Then he gets mad and storms off and keeps messaging me about how I was mean to him or whatever.
Now I’m having second thoughts. Am I the asshole here? Seriously asking because maybe I’m not seeing his view, even if it’s based off Patrick Bateman.