Born in the Wrong Chair

What if you’re not broken. You’re just sitting in the wrong chair?

This isn’t just about a messy room; it’s about the quiet lies we tell ourselves and how those lies shape the way we move through life.

For years, Fabien William Auger tried to outperform his wiring, masking, pleasing, and overworking until the mask became the face. Born in the Wrong Chair blends memoir and method for anyone who feels “different” and wants the truth. Drawing on sobriety, bipolar and ADHD, the discipline of the boxing gym, and hard-won clarity, Fabien offers a field-tested framework: Knowing, Awareness, Action. It helps transform shame into strength and survival into sovereignty.

Knowing – get honest inventory of what is.
Awareness – feel it, name it, accept it.
Acting – small steps that compound into change.

This is not another neurodivergent story; it is a blueprint. Inside you will find the patterns, run the honest inventory, take small steps that compound, and find language that finally fits. If you have ever been told you are “too much” or “not enough,” if you’ve ever felt like an outsider with a burning inner compass, this book shows you how to build the chair that is right for you. This book is your chair.

Part story, part toolkit, this book gives you practical inventories, transition scripts, and micro-actions that build momentum without c philosophical but usable. Poetic, sharp, and real. For readers of James Clear, Gabor Maté, and memoirs that double as maps.

Author Biography

Fabien William Auger is a French-Caribbean creative raised between quiet fields and loud cities. Neurodivergent. Bipolar, and managing more. Hypersensitive, overwhelmed by the overwhelm and also a boxing-gym regular who learned to steady the hands by moving the feet. He has lived in the countryside of France and Paris’s bright/dark edges; crossed to Manchester and London; burned through a decadent New York decade; then rebuilt in Los Angeles.His work obsesses over the gap between performance and truth: the masks we wear, the stories we’re handed, and the tools that actually help. Born in the Wrong Chair is many stories in one. Family, art, recovery, diagnosis distilled into a simple practice: Knowing what is, Awareness of how it feels, Action in small honest steps. He writes for anyone who has felt “too much,” “not enough,” or simply in the wrong seat.