Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

by Nic Sheff

“I felt like everyone else had gotten this instruction manual that explained life to them, but somehow I’d just missed it. They all seemed to know exactly what they were doing while I didn’t have a clue. That is, until I found drugs and alcohol. Then it was like my world suddenly went from black-and-white to Technicolor.”

One of the saddest but most important things I see when I look back is that Nic was so good at showing me, Karen, and his mom, plus teachers and even therapists, what we wanted to see that we didn’t see how much he suffered. It breaks my heart.