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he was hiding under his desk in the 3rd grade, having panic attacks with shaking, hated school up through 8th grade, and threw fits at home over school, and began to fear contamination and peer poisoning.
The fear of contamination and peer poisoning made me think of this story I read recently.

School children have tried to poison their classmate at a primary school in Hamburg because she was too smart, daily Express reported this week.

http://www.thelocal.de/society/20081218-16221.html