Years after that I thought it was great that I was the one she ignored. I didn't get into trouble I did what I wanted including the continuing of my "feral" lifestyle right up to and most of the time I was in school. I rarely bathed unless in the local creek or the river. People started seeing me doing strange stuff like that and I got a reputation as being a wild child. Local authorities threatened to take me away if Mom didn't get me under control. I was different there was no getting around it so growing up I got hurt allot and as a natural way of dealing with those people I withdrew deeper and deeper into myself. I could go through a whole day without talking to anyone another without talking to Mom and yet another without seeing anyone. I would hide the weekends away up in the mountains, not far away from home but miles away from anyone who would call me names. A small fire a couple rabbits or squirrels some water and some greens that were plentiful everywhere and I could make my own dinner so I wouldn't have to go home. Some kinds of wild morning glories have a sweet-potato like tuber that can weigh up to 30 pounds and I ate allot of them when I was a kid. I liked it up there.I didn't get the looks from other people, you know the strange ones that say that's that little animal. I was accused of being rabid forced to have tests done to prove I wasn't By the time I was twelve I was in the deep woods and living like a true animal untill I started coming down to see and hear what they were doing to my younger finally he completely flipped his lid and attacked a school official. Two days after that I attacked the same school official with the same inch and a half thick club he'd tried to beat my brother with. I trapped him in a tangle of wire at the top of the steps and while he was trying to untangle himself I jumped on his back and beat his ass so hard he couldn't walk which was what he used to do to the kids in school. After that I was somewhat of a celebrity and I'd shown the school official the error of his ways but I was no longer allowed on the property. Mom Moved us to Florida. I spent three summers there and hated that we had to come back but by then I was an unknown again and my little brother who'd done his own form of snapping got in all the trouble while I was blissfully ignored. and even when a certain phys ed teacher decided physical force was warranted My Mom showed him just what happens to individuals who try to do her son, ME! bodily harm. He was out of the hospital in about a week but didn't come back to the school till I was gone. I was seventeen and able to make my own decision as to quit or not. I did got a job and the rest is history. I'd tell you more but I'm not trying to write a book.