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Even in an age when a child’s every irregularity is attributed to a syndrome, the idea of a ‘normal weird kid’ seems reasonable enough, but there were early signs that Adam had significant problems. He struggled with basic emotions, and received coaching from his mother Nancy, who became a stay-at-home mother after Adam was born. When he had to show feelings in a school play, Nancy wrote to a friend, ‘Adam has taken it very seriously, even practising facial expressions in the mirror!’ According to the state’s attorney’s report, when Adam was in fifth grade he said that he ‘did not think highly of himself and believed that everyone else in the world deserved more than he did’. That year, Adam and another boy wrote a story called The Big Book of Granny in which an old woman with a gun in her cane kills wantonly. Adam tried to sell copies of the book at school and got in trouble. A couple of years later, according to the state’s attorney’s report, a teacher noted ‘disturbing’ violence in his writing and described him as being ‘intelligent but not normal, with anti-social issues’. | Even in an age when a child’s every irregularity is attributed to a syndrome, the idea of a ‘normal weird kid’ seems reasonable enough, but there were early signs that Adam had significant problems. He struggled with basic emotions, and received coaching from his mother Nancy, who became a stay-at-home mother after Adam was born. When he had to show feelings in a school play, Nancy wrote to a friend, ‘Adam has taken it very seriously, even practising facial expressions in the mirror!’ According to the state’s attorney’s report, when Adam was in fifth grade he said that he ‘did not think highly of himself and believed that everyone else in the world deserved more than he did’. That year, Adam and another boy wrote a story called The Big Book of Granny in which an old woman with a gun in her cane kills wantonly. Adam tried to sell copies of the book at school and got in trouble. A couple of years later, according to the state’s attorney’s report, a teacher noted ‘disturbing’ violence in his writing and described him as being ‘intelligent but not normal, with anti-social issues’. | ||
When he was six, Adam was raped by a catholic priest named [http://real-life-villains.wikia.com/wiki/Friar_John_J_Castaldo Friar John J Castaldo]; Evidence of his rape:http://neilallen76.wordpress.com/2012/12/19/why-adam-lanza-massacred-children-at-sandy-hook-newtown-a-theory/ | When he was six, Adam was raped by a catholic priest named [http://real-life-villains.wikia.com/wiki/Friar_John_J_Castaldo Friar John J Castaldo]; Evidence of his rape:http://neilallen76.wordpress.com/2012/12/19/why-adam-lanza-massacred-children-at-sandy-hook-newtown-a-theory/ The exprience made Adam suffer in silence for years, and led to him being bullied and beaten at school. | ||
Meanwhile, Peter and Nancy’s marriage was starting to unravel. ‘I’d work ridiculous hours during the week and Nancy would take care of the kids,’ he told me. ‘Then, on the weekends, she’d do errands and I’d spend time with the kids.’ Peter frequently took the boys on weekend hiking trips. In 2001 Peter and Nancy separated. Adam was nine; when a psychiatrist later asked him about it, he said that his parents were as irritating to each other as they were to him. | Meanwhile, Peter and Nancy’s marriage was starting to unravel. ‘I’d work ridiculous hours during the week and Nancy would take care of the kids,’ he told me. ‘Then, on the weekends, she’d do errands and I’d spend time with the kids.’ Peter frequently took the boys on weekend hiking trips. In 2001 Peter and Nancy separated. Adam was nine; when a psychiatrist later asked him about it, he said that his parents were as irritating to each other as they were to him. | ||