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Angus Sinclair was born in 1945 in Glasgow's Welcome to Human Monsters.

Angus Sinclair was born in 1945 in Glasgow, Scotland, where he spent his childhood.

His family were so impoverished that frequent starvation stunted his growth.

He was underdeveloped in other ways, most notably his social skills.

He had no friends.

He was relentlessly bullied for being the smallest child in his class and for lagging behind

his peers academically.

After being bullied consistently over a long period, learned helplessness set in, and he became

introverted and passive. It got to the point where he barely spoke in the presence of others.

The trend continued in adolescence. The boys bullied him, and he never left a blip on the female

sexual radar. Fenced into celibacy, his

lack of a healthy sexual outlet resulted in a violent erotic pathology. He would fantasize

about punishing the girls who ignored him. In these fantasies, he dominated and tortured them.

One can forgive the lad for becoming misanthropic after facing so much rejection and condemnation

from his teachers and peers. One teacher described him as, not a simpleton, but of below average intelligence.

Ouch.

Scottish people with Down syndrome were more dignified by external evaluation.

Angus tried to play society's games by their rules, but he always lost, so he made up some of his own.

To compensate for the lack of privileges only money can buy, he began stealing, not just from stores, but from churches.

The collection plate was passed directly into Angus Sinclair's

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