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I'm currently reading "My Friend Dahmer", a graphic novel written by a guy who was friends with Jeffrey Dahmer in High School. I'm around half way through at the mo, savouring the artwork. The story is fairly short, but it is interesting. The writer is obviously thinking back to Dahmer's character at school and his strange penchants, and of course missed opportunities to raise issues with the teachers or other adults.
The book is thought provoking and seems to evoke a strange nostalgia for my school days (I'm 30 in December, so I don't have to think back too too far!) and some of the characters and people I knew. Every school has its "weirdos" and mine was no different, but obviously you would never mention anything to the grown ups for fear of being labelled a grass. It must be extremely difficult for people flung into the limelight for having connections with another person, such as this. Especially nowadays when teachers and schools are connected so closely with social workers and are expected to have taken a real responsibility for helping to raise a person and identify anything.