Evan Hansen is a normal seventeen year old boy. Except he isn't. he suffers from very bad anxiety, he can't even order himself pizza because he doesn't want to talk to them - well, really he's scared to. His father left When he was six and moved to Colorado, leaving Evan and his mother alone. Evan spoke with an almost permanent stutter, he was just nervous around people in general. He loves trees, he broke his arm climbing one at Elison National Park. He knows everything about trees.