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I first wrote "predatory gays," but that sounded very wrong because, in my experience, gay men have been far more kind, compassionate, helpful, decent, and intelligent than "normal people." You need look no farther than Jake Nodar from XL.

Furthermore, in office environments, they were almost the only ones who accepted me as *I* am, when "normals" shunned, ridiculed, and hated me for no reason my autistic brain can understand.

Perhaps they know what it feels like to be made fun of.

Shane describes--in horrific, graphic detail--times as a kid when he was beat up and raped orally and anally by older kids and evil adults. No one in the world cared about it or protected him, and he couldn't escape the psychotic-level nightmare. I'm tempted to post scans of those pages and let you decide whether it was predatory, but it would probably be sickening, inappropriate, and hugely embarrassing to Shane.

So you'll kind of have to take my word for it that he had to hang around monsters.

I can't imagine anyone writing those things down except on a police report, much less in a book. Shane is unusually honest.

However, those and other events absolutely show why he evolved into the way he was in XL and on the very first ep of NAA with Kim Shelton: suspicious (like when he insisted that the girl stole his firestarter to fuck him up), and emotionally unlinked from the people around him. He says things like "If I die out here, nobody in the world would give a shit."

That statement might just be a throwaway line in the show, but it is the center of who Shane is.

I have NO idea why he didn't turn into a monster, because that's exactly where monsters come from. But in fact, he became the opposite: selfless, helpful, and concerned that other people might be suffering.

His book is an an amazing testament to the power of internal integrity and character, and I wish it was mandatory reading in schools. Shane is part of a group that goes around the country giving presentations to kids, to tell them that they do NOT have to surrender their humanity to bullies by becoming one.

After S01E01, I thought he was a jerk and an asshole. After reading about him, he's my hero.

In XL/5, he always hung around with Nicole, and now they're bf/gf. That makes me very happy because it may be, literally, the first time in his life that somebody loved him.

I'm extra happy that it was NAA that brought them together.

I'm hoping that her love will crack and melt away the protective emotional nutshell he has been trapped in ever since those unspeakable events so long ago.

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I'd bring this. http://www.amazon.com/Innovation-Factory-Truckers-All-Purpose-Survival/dp/B005HAT9SM