Born into a middle-class family, Dahmer was born in Milwaukee, a working-class town in the northern United States. He moved with his parents to the small town of Bath Township (near Akron), Ohio, at the age of seven. Lionel Dahmer may have made up the assault story to "explain" why his son was attacked in a gay context "to get revenge." ". Lionel Dahmer seems, in fact, to have never accepted or understood his son's homosexuality... Jeffrey Dahmer himself stated: "There was no particular incident that could... have caused it" (orientation sexual). "It is said that some people are attacked or raped by someone, this is what makes them become homosexual. That was never the case with me." Dahmer's father explained that, at the age of eight, Jeffrey was sexually assaulted by a neighborhood teenager. If this is true, perhaps this "incident" can help understand the Dahmer's subsequent crimes. Dahmer's mother was neurotic and always nervous. Dahmer's father, a pharmacist, spent all his time working (probably to escape his wife). imaginary friends" and terrified his classmates with his strange behavior. Dahmer was an intelligent boy and a brilliant student, but he did not use his full "potential". He dropped out of class by being silly, was a loner, and behaved strange. When Dahmer was about 8 years old, "a strange fear began to creep into his personality, fear of others combined with a general lack of confidence. He developed a reluctance to change, a need to feel the security of familiar places. The prospect of going to school scared him, the boy who previously seemed so happy and confident had been replaced by a different person, who was now very shy. . middle of the paper...... exit. "For the young Jeffrey Dahmer, this "output" was his fascination with dead animals, which he often dissected. Dahmer said there was no sexual element there, explaining only a "morbid curiosity." But the lessons of anatomy he learned served him as a child into adulthood." One of the things that baffles me... is... why I can't seem to produce more feelings. I mean, if I had been able to feel more emotions, maybe they would never have been produced. But I think my emotion, my emotional side was… dulled. David, who was at stake in his parents' divorce, each contesting custody of the younger, but ignoring the older. Dahmer's parents completely lost interest in him when they separated in July 1978. In August, his mother took his younger brother to her Chippewa Falls, and Jeffrey was left alone in the Bath house..