Blue Demon: A Memoir of Addiction, Autism, and Survival tears the skin off the polite narratives of mental illness and redemption. This is the story of Davey Blanch, a boy born into static and fire—autistic, unseen, and burning from the inside out. What begins as confusion and alienation spirals into full-blown psychosis, violence, addiction, and the kind of madness that chews through flesh and memory alike.

There are no clean arcs here. No soft landings. Just hospitals that smell like bleach and blood, drugs that never numb quite enough, and a world that punishes difference with silence or a locked door. Davey doesn't find himself—he fights for scraps of identity in the wreckage, clawing through the fog of RoxyContin, mania, and broken time.

Told in sharp, splintered prose that drips with pain and defiance, Blue Demon is a howl from the gutter, a memoir that doesn't care if you're comfortable—it just wants you to know what it really feels like to lose your mind and live through it.

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