Yeah, I know that feeling.

My son has a mild form of autism that makes him very sensitive to sensory issues and unwilling to, well, go outside the "usual".

Three weeks back at Boy Scout summer camp, at the request of his only real friend in the troop (another autism thing), my son did the Wilderness Survival merit badge, including spending a night by himself in a shelter that he built with nothing but a knife, two matches, a poncho, and the clothes on his back. Cool.