

The author says "That mirrored the real Dahmer, who was little more than a cartoon. The author, Derf Backderf, actually admitted that he was the 'Minister of Propaganda' for the fan club and put a cartoon Dahmer into every cartoon he drew for the school paper, yearbook, posters for student council and sports pep rallies. The Dahmer Fan Club seemed to amp up their cruelty by using Dahmer to photo bomb year book pictures and pay him to act out at events. Dahmer's home life was troubled.ġ977-1978 was Dahmer's Senior year. She would have uncontrollable fits and collapse from exhaustion.

Derf explained that Dahmer's mother had mental health issues and was frequently on multiple medications. This chapter shares that Dahmer was gay and had fantasies about having sex with corpses and about fondling the unconscious dead body of the jogger who ran by his house daily. They actually created a club to celebrate his strangeness. Backderf suggested that his friends were not mean-spirited or putting Dahmer down. Dahmer was basically invisible until about his sophomore year at Revere High School where he started gaining attention by throwing fake epileptic fits, mimicking slurred speech and spastic tics of someone with cerebral palsy. Showed how Dahmer stole animals from anatomy class and took them home.

Leads into the story that the author, Derf Backderf, actually attended school with Jeffrey Dahmer in Bath, Ohio.
