David Pelzer

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How would you feel if your whole life your mother neglected you? Well my hero David Pelzer had to go through that during his childhood with living with his mother. Since the age of four his mother called him "it" and singled him out from his brothers. She wouldn’t feed him and she used to abuse him. She would make him sleep in the garage in the cold and make him sit in the bathroom with ammonia in a bucket and inhale it. She also burned him on a gas stove, and one day when they went on vacation one day and she stabbed him in the back with a knife. Because she was a nurse, she didn’t bring him to the hospital because she knew how to make him better.

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I think his mother was very wrong and truly scarred him for life. Even though his mother did all this to him he was still able to overcome this and love his son and not treat him the same way his mother treated him. But when he asked his mother why she abused him she was speechless. When he got older and he had to go to his father’s funeral his mother tried to treat him like a child again and abuse him. He told her that he wasn’t the same little boy she knew and he wasn’t going to allow her to do that. Now as an adult he is treating his son just like he wanted to be treated when he was younger. He doesn’t abuse his son or anything.

He almost died several times by his own mother’s hands. In 1993 the president honored him as one of the most outstanding Americans. During the 1996 Olympics he carried the coveted centennial flame for the Olympic game. He wrote 6 books about his life and I’ve read 2 of them and I truly couldn’t put them down. They are so sad and I would recommend anyone to read these books. Now he dedicates his life to helping others, so that no other child has to go through what he went through. He feels like that should not happen to anyone what he went through. But to this day he still is emotionally scarred for life, and his life will never be the same.

If I was David I would never be able to forgive my mother. I wouldn't be able to drink because I would be scared that I would abuse my child like my mother abused me. If I was David I would love my son with so much love and I would never want him to feel neglected at any time.