At just 13 years old, J Grange was disappearing from home again and again. He had been excluded from school, was in trouble with the police, and was written off as disruptive. In reality, he was a child in crisis, struggling with undiagnosed ADHD and sinking into depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts.
“I just didn't want to be seen by anybody,” Mr Grange told The Independent. “The easiest option for me was to run, just run, go missing... It was a few times, it wasn't just the once... It was normally almost like a defence mechanism for when I was struggling mentally and with my neurodivergence.”
