Randy Robert Stair/interview01

‘He was the year ahead of me and I had a couple of classes with him. He was a loner and I maybe heard him speak once. Never saw him with any pony or Danny Phantom stuff but I do know that his other autistic obsession was the Dallas Cowboys. That’s pretty much all I know about him.’

‘Oh, and I just remembered that my friend claims to have seen him jerking it in the library once, which seems like a pretty important detail to include.’

‘He wasn’t in special ed classes to my knowledge, in fact one of the classes I had with him was an honors class. And he never did try to present as a woman in high school, but if he had he would have been bullied mercilessly so it’s not that unthinkable.’

‘The jocks and bullies did tease him sometimes but he didn’t have it particularly bad and to my knowledge he never got beat up.’