We all had that feeling of defiance when we were younger to run away from our troubles and our family and never come back. Well one 13-year old kid In New York took this notion and literally ran with it. Haunted by a mishap in his Brooklyn middle school and threatened with consequences by his mother, 13-year old Francisco Hernandez Jr. decided to live the life of freedom on the New York subway. Hernandez had been diagnosed with a form of autism called Asperger's syndrome in which individuals experience difficulties with social interaction. With only 10 dollars and a subway pass Hernandez lived off water and junk food from subway stands for 11 days. Police and the Mexican consulate searched the city for days and the boy was finally found at the Coney Island station. Reports say that the boy was very skinny and very dirty which is expected for almost two weeks in the subways of New York, but otherwise he was in healthy condition.
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