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Just because the events in this book are horrific and are beyond what a normal individual finds plausible doesn't mean it didn't happen. I believe that Dave Peltizer suffered horrible abuse at the hands of his sick mother. We try to analyze everything but there are some things that can't be analyzed such as a person's ability to heap horrific acts of abuse on another person. Logic and reasoning doesn't have an effect on a mentally deranged person.

I undertstand where you're coming from and as far as the actual abuse goes, you make some great points.

However, if his mother was actually sadistic with psychopathic tendecies, it's very possible she wouldn't have been found out.

Psychopaths don't feel empathy or understand social cues, but they are very good at emulating them.
Psychopaths are VERY good at turning it off and on. If you look through the history of serial killers, a lot of them are said to be smart and charming in a casual social setting. They are manipulative and smart when it comes to getting what they want.

Davids mother is all of these things. This would also explain how quickly she "snaps". She didn't simply waker up one day and decide to be crazy, this was something festering for along time, she simply couldn't hide her sadistic tendencies anymore. She still knew how to hide it and how to charm people into the idea that nothing was wrong.

Katie, did you read his series of books? I think not!!!! The Principle of the school finally called CSB due to all of the skin on his arms being burnt off by some sort of "chemical". Then, David Peltzer remembered putting his hands in the bucket to keep his mother from putting his head in to kill him. This is not fiction, all school authorities confirmed it! As far as comparing a cool to cold bath tub to the Titanic, wow, where to start? Hospitals and mental wards use ice baths for different reasons and sometimes patients are left in for hours and survive. Kind of a dramatic difference being compared to the middle of the ocean full of icebergs. Also, IF we read the same book(s), there was no mention of David drinking the two chemicals mixed????? Anyone can survive the mixture just fine as long as there is ventilation. I'm a true believer and my heart goes out to David and anyone who has survived this horrific ordeal. I hope and pray he has a professional chef that provides some of the best meals a human could have and pats the corners of his mouth while he eats it! An amazing man!

I don't recall that he ever ate feces. She tried to mash his face into a nappy and he whined and protested and squirmed away long enough for his father to come back so that that incident didn't go very far. He had a tape in the basement that he got water from during the times he was starved and also managed to roll himself tiny bits of pastry from a freezer that might not be missed because he just scraped them with his finger nail. "freezing" regarding the water, well he only meant she ran the cold tap which certainly may have felt "freezing" when he was made to lie in it, but is not actually literally freezing I suppose. He found a cloth that he put cold water on to hold over his mouth while locked in the amonia filled room. He explains all the ways he dealt with these things and got around the tortures in great detail that's what the whole book is about.

Dysfunction for Dollars is a very poorly written opinon piece and people keep harking back to it as some kind of "proof" the book is untrue. That's ridicoulous. Oh and if you know anything about abuse then you know that of course the family denies it all. That means nothing. Parents with personality disorders very often pick on one or two children while putting another child on a pedestal. That gives the parent the power of saying "see I'm a good parent it's all that one bad child. But being good to one child in no way excuses a parent of child abuse against another child. Other saidists with power over others have been known to do the same as well these personality disorderd sadists put all their self hate on one person while putting their self love on another hence Ariel Castro was a lot more violent and cruel to Michele Knight than he was to Amanda Berry. As Michelle Knight said the only thing Amanda Berry was deprived of was her freedom and freedom from being raped but she was showered with gifts while Michele Knight was deprived of a lot more. This behaviour doesn't make Michele Knight at fault in any way or David and Richard Pelzer at fault just because their mother chose not to abuse her other children to the same extent, or Lauren Kavengh at fault that the other children in her family weren't starved or sexually abused. The family calling him a liar to try to maintain some dignity in the eyes of the public proves nothing.

Here is his brother Richard who corroborates everything. https://www.conductdisorders.com/comm...

He DID have access to water there was a tap down in the basement which is definitely how he survived a lot of things. He cleaned his own wound and applied a cloth to it. The fact is he explained in detail the tricks he used to survive each incident which you are ignoring.

I don't believe the story wholeheartedly one If you're drinking liquid ammonia, not only would you be doing some nasty thermal damage to your throat and stomach, but when the ammonia boils after you drink it and you breathe in the gas, you'd also be doing some nasty breathing-in-ammonia damage to your lungs. Plus the stabbing the knife wouldn't just cut the skin under the skin there are intestines.

Katie what gives you the right to judge anyone who has been abused especially from the age he was when the abuse started. We may as well pull you up as the Donald Trump type regarding the #Metoo movement. Sure all those women were just making it up !!! Are you for Real..... I guarantee you that you would not be able to walk a day in this mans Shoes having gone through even the tiniest bit of what he says. First of all NONE of us were there and people who suffer abuse especially as a child get stuck in the age they were when it happened when recounting such traumatic events. What child knows exactly where the heart is in the body, I know of Adults who could'nt tell you. You say You've read a few Books...seriously GTFO. You sound like one of the common children who had it all, parents love etc food a roof over your head and bed etc. So maybe your ignorant brain can't comprehend such evil and cruelty....It makes me so Angry when Entitled excuses, of human beings like yourself try to disregard events that they have no idea about. If you are thinking wow this person is attacking me. You are darn straight I am. Not a nice feeling to be the target of someones anger is it? I've sat Moderating Groups where One Girl Recounted having been abused in every way shape or form from the day she was born and in the same group sat next to her was a girl who said she was in the group and needed therapy because her dad raised his voice at the Dinner Table ONCE, at which point she got so upset she had to go to her room! To me you are the Girl who went to the saftey of the room, when the other girl had to steal to eat as a kid , had never eaten at a dinner table and didnt have a bed let alone a safe room to go to. Sitting here reading all the comments, If i had to pick one person to be THAT Girl with a loving father, a dinner table, a family eating at the Dinner Table and an Ungrateful Girl who HAD a room to escape to...Yes that would be you. Imagine You saying all of what you are saying to the Boy the child Dave, when he was being abused. Would you turn round and say Oh I'm sorry im not going to help you because your abuse doesnt sound real or bad enough...Whatever ...people like you are the reason that abuse continues. People like Dave who wrote whatever he did, had the courage to re-live and tell his story and help people. What have you done by trying to discredit someone who clearly had a difficult past... Abuse when it happens, even if it happens for a few mins the suffering lasts a life time time and when its relived in the mind a minute can feel like hours ....you imagine if you possibly can in your blinkered mind...being that age or even now try lying in bath of cold water for some time with no time reference no clock.... naked cold humilated with no sense of self and abused and then tell me if you can recount exactly how much time has passed. How often do people say things like “I'm dying in the cold out here?” Children are still learning at that age and their references may be off because they dont have enough information to process things correctly. Honestly people like you sicken me and you should be ashamed, because what happened to Dave was what happened to him, how he processed it and what it meant to him. For example if I told you that to demonstrate what I mean....go out and get beaten up or worse on purpose.....then come back and tell us if it makes a difference knowing that it was on purpose and would it make any less traumatic for you. According to that child at that age this is what happened to him, this is his reality. Children who endure such traumatic events try to tell people and its people like you who ignore them and allow it to continue and meanwhile all children like him want is for the abuse to stop and for people to beleive them and just try to understand how they they have been made to feel, so they can ever have hope of healing. Empathy is what is lacking in the World have you thought that David the little boy may be trying to explain his pain the only way he knows how, would you blame a child for screaming a little louder so they can get a hug or some understanding, I have heard of children who scream louder or even imagine pain to the point that it feels real to them so that they can have a warm hug or a bit of the attention or recognition they deserve. Honestly after seeing how limited your knowledge is and your narrow mindedness I can tell that you know nothing about the depth of such things as abuse. You in your so called knowledge even failed to realise that his mum was Schizophrenic and that such Evil Exists!Its people that you that let children like Dave down!

When we were all reading this as kids I remember telling this boy my age about it and he didn't even read it he immediately was skeptical upon hearing it, and the next day he said he looked it up and read all this stuff about how it was fake. It always stuck with me because it seemed obvious to me that this kid could not fathom even the idea of a kid being badly abused and that he went looking for holes, before even reading it. He didn't even know as much about the story as this poster. I think people who have a hard time wrapping their head around what happened to Dave, don't know how bad this world can be.