“In my mind, I’m doing everything I’m supposed to do in a situation like that,” says Reum, a fan of TV survival shows such as Man Vs Wild and Naked and Afraid.
Matthew Reum was driving home late on a dark, foggy night in Indiana when his headlights landed on what looked like a deer.
“My truck had a sunroof, which had shattered during the wreck, but there was a sunscreen that I realised I could fold to direct the rain.” At first, he drank the rainwater by cupping it in his hands, “and that is the worst water I have ever tasted.
In his book, he writes about how he was diagnosed with Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) as a teenager, a condition common among those who spent their childhoods in eastern bloc orphanages, as Reum did before he was adopted from Kaliningrad, Russia, when he was three.
At first, no one even knew Reum was missing.
