I remember him telling those stories of his childhood. As a premie, I didn't take them literally. I took his suffering and being afraid of his teachers and the burden of doing homework as an exaggerated story that he used to demonstrate that he understood what life was like for an ordinary kid (I was one, almost a year older than him). I also never did my homework and was frequently slippered and later caned for my lack of effort. I was still being caned after I was initiated. I was a schoolboy premie.
So I read into it what I wanted to read into it. I was in a cult.
Reading what you've written and linked to now, it is refreshingly straight forward, just reading it literally.
Above, I wasn't suggesting I've only realised he's fraudulent since these allegations came to light. More that the allegations show him to be even more fraudulent than I'd suspected. But that's it now. This is the bottom of the barrel.
