Dax Shepard

How do you even write about neglect?

Because it's all the things that aren't happening.

It's all the things that didn't happen.

You just fill 10 pages with, and then I stared at the wall.

And then I stared at the wall again.

Right.

So what happens is you deal, right?

And part of that is you work within the little social system that you have there, which is you make friends if you can.

You figure out what the house parents are all about, right?

Part of it is your emotions begin to change in ways that even an adult, I don't think, would fully understand what was happening to them.

The other thing that's hard to relate to is you're a child, so you don't know what's happening.

You have zero say in any of this.

You can't construct a plan that's going to get you out of this.

No, but we would, though.

I ended up meeting a kid named Omar, a few years older than me, Mexican-American kid.

He was Miguel at one point?

Yeah, so I got his permission.

Oh, okay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So, you know, Omar is from downtown Albuquerque, also a very bad neighborhood.