Like many teens, Ryan developed a fascination with anime in high school. His mom, Connie, encouraged his obsession with the art form, seeing it as a creative outlet for her socially isolated son. Now she blames the hugely popular genre for leading her son down a dark path that ultimately led to gender confusion and destroyed her happy family.
Connie described Ryan as “always just a quiet, compassionate, loving kid.” She was confident in her close relationship with her son: “We’d be driving in the car, even when he was a teenager, and I put my hand out, and he’d hold my hand while we were driving,” she says.
