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Dahmer's childhood
« Thread Started on Aug 14, 2007, 12:53am »

I read "The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer" by Brian Masters (well researched and excellently written) and I learned a lot. It is said, often, that Dahmer had a fairly normal childhood. But, after reading that book I saw things in his childhood that could have contributed to what he became. Keep in mind that, while most of the things may seem minor to us, for a child, it may have more of an impact...especially when you put all of it together. And, let's not forget, that each person reacts differently to stressors...none of us react exactly the same in any given situation.

1. The author made a point that Dahmer's mother abruptly stopped breastfeeding and swtiched to a bottle...well, trust and that bond form early on, and breastfeeding is a great way to strengthen that bond, and for a mother to stop so suddenly can be a bit traumatic for one so little.

2. Dahmer's mother is described as being very self-centered, and it appears she was quite manipulative of her husband.

3. Dahmer's mother abused perscription drugs, or so it seems in the book.

4. Numerous moves in a short period of time, often resulting in Dahmer losing his closest companions...his pets.

5. Dahmer had to have double hernia surgery at the age of 4, depending on how much, if anything, was explained to him, could be very traumatic. Said in the book that Dahmer states he asked his mom if they had cut his "private parts" off 'cuz the pain was so bad.

6. Dahmer's mother ends up on a psych ward for a month, upon release, still continues taking pills.

7. Dahmer witnessed his father strike his mother "when she was screaming and he felt she needed to be calmed; but never brutally and never with malice."

8. Plenty of arguments in the house, accompanied with things being thrown at times.

9. Dahmer felt betrayed by a school friend, and also by a teacher. This, altho seems unimportant, could also helped lead to his fear of getting to close and trusting with a person while they were alive.

10. Jeff often blamed himself for his mother's problems and use of pills, since it was common knowledge that she began getting "sick" after she gave birth to him.

All of these things took place while Dahmer was still rather young, and very impressionable. Imo, Dahmer's case is different than most sk's because he killed, I think, because he didn't want to be alone, and I don't think he really liked what he had become, but didn't know how to change. I think all these things I have listed above helped steer him in the direction he went...I think much of it had made an impression in his mind, at a very young age, that relationships were bad, and that ppl could not be trusted, and better if you don't get too close to anyone....but he desperately wanted that closeness with someone, anyone, even if they were dead...which seemed the safest way, at the time.

It says in the book:

"This early sense of alienation is a common feature of many men who become compulsive murderers. Joseph Kallinger, whose case was exhaustively studied by Flora Rheta Schreiber in The Shoemaker, said 'I had a lack of feeling that I was a part of anybody- or that anybody was a part of me.' THe notoroious torturer Leonard Lake arrested in San Francisco in 1985, similarly felt himself to be outside of life, watching. So did the boastful serial killer Henry Lee Lucas, arrested in Texas in 1983, whose mother was psychiatrically impaired. They all felt in some way adrift, disconnected from the universe inhabited by everyone else, all those people who belong together and who are bonded. They are apart and alone."

Dahmer is my fave sk to read about, 'cuz I can really identify with him....with the loneliness, and feeling like you're on the outside looking in...

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