I have occupied both sides of radicalisation: I have been the person looking in, and the person desperately trying to find a way back out. In my 2024 memoir Chasing Shadows: My Life as a Pseudo-Law Extremist, I documented how an introduction to an online legal community grew from curiosity into a daily obsession and then eventually my name being brought up in conversation alongside domestic terrorists such as Desmond “Dezi Freeman” Filby as well as Nathaniel, Gareth, and Stac