Chapter 2 of When Autistic Kids Grow Up goes places many people would rather not look. I’m grateful to Brady Huggett for telling this story without flinching from the truth. This is a packed episode—psychedelics, homelessness, pool halls, the birth of my son, our road to his autism diagnosis, and my battle to get through higher education all live inside it. But I’m focusing this post on survival. I survived homelessness by building what I can only call a life of lies, and by learning a con to get into bars so I could play pool and stay alive. It is not a glamorous story. It is a story about improvisation, risk, and what survival can demand from a person when there are no safe options left.
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