The first time he told Monster Rain stories on O&A it was just as casual. Also his new Devil's Creek revelations on Jim and Sam done just as nonchalantly. He has admitted to continuing his meeting with strangers in remote areas well into his teenage years at this point.
Do you think he’s still coming to terms admitting it and it bothers him all these years later or he’s just making more shit up to sound disturbed? Like how Artie would constantly lie about being a junkie and denied drinking bleach as some sort of attempt in his first book. I think he wishes he was disturbed and dark but in reality his an attention seeking half queer. He wouldn’t eat sauce cooked in vodka but he either took a sip of a beer or a faked one to get on Bar Rescue.