I've Had a Lot of Trauma in My Life, and I'm Not Sure What to Do About It.

"As a child, my response was to shut down and that was a survival response," he says. "Now I am actually able to thrive almost in situations that I used to freeze up in" He's been doing contract work for quite a while now; has paid off all of his debts. The software engineer is still struggling with people watching him work.