The lost boy is incredibly honest book, showing that recovering from torture and war is a process of lifelong learning, choices and challenges He has had small roles in films in Queensland including Thor: Ragnarok. He is studying and working and hopes to be an actor. Thankfully a number of forces (including the law and parenthood and a better psychiatrist) eventually set Ayik on the straight and narrow. They do not interact then, but on their next encounter, a few years later, Ayik speaks with Anyang and says if they were still in Africa he would kill him. One day at a Brisbane church he looks across and sees his childhood torturer and is filled with hate. He is misdiagnosed as schizophrenic and is wrongly medicated for years. After a tumultuous life in Africa, Ayik brings that trauma with him to Australia and at various times gets in trouble with the law over violence, alcohol and drugs. He regularly ran away, sometimes to refugee camps, but was found, dragged bag and brutally punished by then fourteen-year-old Anyang, the man now sitting opposite him. One of them, Ayik, was once a ten-year-old boy soldier training in the junior forces of the SPLA and like many of the young boys hating it. In this episode, Ayik Chut Deng joined Max Lewis to chat about the writing of his memoir 'The Lost Boy: Tales of a Child Soldier', and how he overcame unimaginable trauma to become the man he is today.Summary In episode 1 of the Ray Martin fronted SBS series Look me in the Eye, two South Sudanese migrants now resident in Brisbane sat across from each other and looked into each other's eyes. Overcoming a childhood filled with torture and war was a process of lifelong learning, choices and challenges that included a remarkable chance encounter with a figure from his past, and an appearance on national television. At age nineteen, he and his family escaped the conflict in Sudan and resettled in Toowoomba, Australia. During his time as a child soldier, he witnessed unspeakable violence and was regularly tortured by older boys. As a boy living in the Dinka tribe in what is now South Sudan, the youngest country in the world, Ayik Chut Deng was a member of the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA).
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