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Daniel's childhood was wrought with tenuous claims of neglect and alleged [[Pedophilia#Daniel's Sexual Deviance and Possible Sexual Trauma|sexual abuse]], which, if true, may have left him with childhood trauma which exacerbated his already chaotic behavior as well as contributing to his later [[Pedophilia|pedophilic tendencies]]. A worker who is said to have helped him during childhood went on to say Daniel had a, "...history of child sexual abuse (to him and by him)," although what this means is unknown. It has not been confirmed if this person actually helped Daniel, leaving its validity questionable at best.<ref>[[:File:Daniel Sexual Abuse claims.png|File:Daniel Sexual Abuse claims.png]]</ref>   

Even given the questionable validity of him being abused by his parents, claims of Daniel being neglected is confirmed by multiple people, even by his own [[Katie Elise|classmates]].  

This is evidenced by the fact that, at about age 11, Daniel was taken away from his mother by the State of Colorado due to being neglected and facing alleged abuse,<ref name=":0">[[Rooftop Interview]]</ref><ref name=":1">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsAGVvnzbms&t=1298s</ref> which Daniel and a later news report reaffirm. Due to this, Daniel claims that he bounced between 10 to 15 foster homes. This is also evidenced by leaked documents the DDRC sent to potential fosters families/host homes. These documents warns families that Daniel, "has a history of [[7/11 incident|property damage]], [[Dog Arc|kicking animals]], [[August 29th Meltdown|self-injurious]] behavior, and verbally threatening or [[December 10th Incident|hitting providers]] when he's upset" which corroborates claims of him being extremely violent, even in childhood.   

Elisabeth, Daniel's mother, has claimed that Nancy, her adopted mother, as well as Daniel's grandmother, spread lies about her abusing her son, but the validity of these claims has yet to be substantiated.<ref name=":4" /> However, It is ''extremely'' likely that Elisabeth was unable to take care of Daniel due to being disabled and functioning solely in a wheelchair, difficulty only added by the separation of her and his father, as well as difficulty from Daniel. Because of her disability, Elisabeth went into assisted living in 2015 when Daniel was around 16-17.   

According to [[Flexburger]], a person who would later make contact with him:  

Daniel was placed into several foster homes before his grandmother, [[Nancy Shimer]], eventually took legal guardianship of him after a long custody battle.<ref name=":1" />   

Despite her kinder treatment of Daniel, Nancy was known to be enabling of his bad habits, according to both of Daniel's parents. It is claimed that at the tender age of 3, Nancy rewarded Daniel with M&M's after he painted on her house's walls, opposed to punishing him.{{Citation Needed}} Due to this enabling, Elisabeth and Travis attempted to gain respective custody of their son, before ultimately failing. When Travis attempted to file for custody of Daniel, Nancy refuted it by saying that Daniel, "didn't even know his father", which heavily calls into question what their relationship was like. Because of this, Travis grew to have an extreme dislike of Nancy, allegedly calling her a bitch as well as claiming the only reason she had obtained custody of Daniel was due to her greater financial situation.<ref>[[Spiddlekick Interview]]</ref> Though, unlike his father, Elisabeth was eventually given visitation rights to see Daniel once more. Considering how his father never made an effort to visit him, it can be assumed that their relationship fell apart long before Daniel was even an adult, let alone a teenager. 

Daniel would attend the [[Tennyson Center|Tennyson Center for Children]], an assisted living facility for schooling, rehabilitating, and assisting children with intellectual disabilities and children who faced neglect, abuse, and other mistreatment. At this school, he met his mentor, [[Bob Proctor]], via a reading buddy program wherein they played board games and read together.<ref>[[Spiddlekick Interview]]</ref> Even after the program concluded, Daniel and Bob still remained close.   

Daniel even made it on the news, evidenced by a [https://youtube.com/watch?v=jyCZEd11Hdo 2012 news report on KWGN]. While not entirely focused on Daniel, it would would document his time at the [[Tennyson Center]], where he lived for 1 1/2 years prior to Nancy gaining custody of him, as well an interview with his grandmother.  

[[File:SobeskyDan4.png|thumb|434x434px|Our beloved Danny Boy. ]]

During his childhood, Daniel was almost exclusively referred as "Danny". He was even called this in his schools yearbook and in the news report he was featured in. According to his classmates, Daniel was a very violent person, even in class. One of his classmates remarks at a time wherein Daniel threw a chair at a window which resulted in a light fixture being knocked down.<ref>[[Canned Legs Leaks]]</ref>  

According to this same classmate, Daniel had a habit of running in the hallway in an attempt to evade staff. Due to this behavior, Daniel was given a guardian that followed him around throughout the school day due to him no longer being trusted alone.<ref>[[Katie Elise]]</ref> When questioned, he claimed that this wasn't due to his inability to be trusted, but due to the positive relationship he had with his teachers.<ref>[[Spiddlekick Interview]]</ref>  

Just like his childhood, his time in school was wrought with alleged claims of mistreatment and bullying. Daniel claims that the Tennyson Center was a "very violent place".<ref>[[Spiddlekick Interview]]</ref> According to Daniel, the Tennyson Center had a brick room only lit up by a single window, dubbed the "Timeout Room". Daniel would be placed in this room on several occasions, with his reasoning for these occurences such as excessive crying, and not cooperating with teachers. Other students would be physically restrained due to being violent, however, this seems to have never happened to Daniel.  

When in school, Daniel claimed that children would tease him by calling him "[[wikipedia:Danny_Phantom|Danny Phantom]]", a nickname derived from the fictional character of the same name. Though, this seems very unlikely, as according to a classmate, Daniel barely reacted to being called this nickname, and even more, he was so reserved that people barely ever paid attention to him.<ref>[[FlyingFoxandwings AMA]]</ref> {{Quote|Contrary to what he may say, people were actually quite respectful towards him. We all knew we had our own issues, and for the most part, nobody meant any harm towards him. Whenever he was called Danny phantom, there was no malicious intent. He didn't even really react to it. I guess that's more something that came after he graduated. But no, not really anybody bullied him. This particular school was quite small, so when I say that, not really, anybody bullied him, I mean, there were about 18 of us in the high school. Even the biggest bully in the school didn't really pay much mind to him. He was just that reserved.}}

According to his [https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-larson-b734b2196/ Linkedin page], Daniel was a volunteer dog walker for the Humane Society of Boulder Valley in January of 2012, although there is not much more information about this.     

[[File:MusicalTheater2.png|left|thumb|Notice how small his head is. ]]

Sometime in 2014, Daniel started attending several musical theater programs.<ref>https://archive.org/details/daniel-larsons-2014-musical-audition_202401</ref> It is unknown who set him up for these programs, but it can be inferred that his grandmother was the one who introduced him to it. Daniel's mother could have also introduced him to it, as she is documented to have an intense interest in singing, [[Music Career|just as Daniel would later into his life]].   

Daniel is known to have played in at least 8 musicals, although very rarely getting leading roles. This would set the groundwork for his desire to be famous.   

In many of the photos from his time in musical theater, Daniel, most notably his head/skull, is visibly smaller than almost all of his classmates, only exacerbated by his odd bowl cut hairstyle. It can be assumed that Daniel has some sort of physical disability that causes him to look like this such as [[wikipedia:Progeria|Progeria,]] but this cannot be substantiated.  

Daniel would start attending [[Sobesky Academy]] in 2016, the year it opened. It should be noted that Sobesky, while having a large population of children with special needs and behavioral issues, was not a special-needs only school. This was due to Sobesky being an [[wikipedia:Alternative_school|alternative transitional school]], which aimed to rehabilitate troubled students and help them sort through their issues to attain academic success.<ref>[[FlyingFoxandwings AMA]]</ref> Due to him never being reintegrated, there are questions surrounding the validity of his high school diploma.  

Daniel's time in Sobesky is mostly unknown, as Daniel seemingly hasn't talked much about his high-school years, opposed to his time in the Tennyson Center which he seems to hold in higher regard. Though, according to [[FlyingFoxandwings AMA|one of his high-school classmates]], Daniel, even in high school, had an escort, which implies that Daniel had violent tendencies even then.   

{{Quote|He seemed pretty normal. He really had some issues with academic retention and he was very reserved. He often times would have an escort, and his escorts would call him Danny... ...post-graduation it was like night and day. He went from robotic to the way he is today. It was a rapid turnaround.}}[[File:Openingschool.png|left|thumb|273x273px|Daniel, at the opening of Sobesky Academy. ]]Despite being reserved, he was documented to have occasionally [[Self Harm|hit himself]], as well as having outbursts and [[meltdowns]], which would result in him being put in "close and lock", much akin to the Punishment Room. The reasons why he is so much worse now compared to his time in school could be due to Daniel being heavily medicated when he attended Sobesky and Tennyson, opposed to nowadays where he almost always refuses to be put on antipsychotics. He was often described as someone who was quiet, a "total wallflower", and "pretty normal".<ref>[[FlyingFoxandwings AMA]]</ref>

Daniel, despite being [[Intelligence|unable to do basic math,]] to a point where a classmate described him as having academic retention, took math up to Algebra 2.  

[[File:Furries.png|thumb|Could Daniel possibly be a furry?]]

It is unknown what Daniel did for most of high school career, however, he is known to have acted as one of the mascots for his schools softball team. Daniel was said to have been obsessed with [[Music Career|singing]] even during high school, however, there were no mentions of [[Grace VanderWaal]]. Though, sometime when Daniel was around 17, him and his grandmother were watching ''[[wikipedia:America's_Got_Talent|America's Got Talent]].'' It is said that when Daniel was watching it with her, his grandmother remarked that he may sing with her on stage some day. Despite the questionable validity of this statement, Daniel convinced himself (even though at the time [[Pedophilia|Grace was 12, and he was 5 months away from becoming 18]]) that he was apart of Grace's life and had a relationship with her. This was the birth of his obsession with her.  

[[File:Graduation.png|left|thumb|200x200px|Daniel, graduating. ]]

Much to everyone's surprise, Daniel, while still attending school, was [[November 6th Arrest|arrested]] after an instance in which he physically assaulted his [[Elisabeth Shimer|mother]], who at that point was fully paralyzed and unable to walk. He claims that this situation was aggravated after she had cornered him, but when looking at his charges, there is much doubt to be had in his story. Due to this, he was imprisoned for 44-45 days, delaying his graduation from Sobesky. Due to this incident, it would almost instantly ruin him and his mothers relationship.   

Daniel would graduate from Sobesky Academy at the age of 19 in 2017. After this, he never attended a college or a university. It can be inferred that he continued to live with his grandmother after this. <center></center>

{{Needs Updating|Sources=[[Social Media Accounts]](Accounts pre-DanielLarsonFans creation)}}{{Stub}}[[File:BroadwayPic.png|left|thumb|What a good girl!]]

2019 would seem to be the year where Daniel would lose two of the most important people in his life. On April 11th, 2019, Daniel had to put his (or more accurately, his grandmothers) dog, Broadway, down, due to her battling cancer.<ref>https://www.instagram.com/p/BwI7cPMlZtQ/</ref>  

{{Quote|Had to put her down today. She had cancer. She was my baby. She was in 2 live performances. Can you wish her luck and good times. She was a fighter and would fight through anything. Her name was Broadway.}}[[File:DanielThriftStore.png|thumb|"A nother day at work."]]

Even more devastatingly, on July 24th, 2019, Nancy, Daniel's grandmother, passed away from cancer when Daniel was 21.   

Before her death, it can be assumed that Daniel was still living with her. On the day she died, Daniel was attending a Special Olympics event, before being informed of her death. Instead of seeing her in her last moments at the hospice center, Daniel instead chose to stay at the event to show that he was a "fighter". This event is an albeit small showing of how much respect Daniel had for his grandmother, as he could not even be bothered to see her as she died.   

After her death, Daniel was sent to a state-run group home program for the disabled. This disability service gave him a job at a thrift store sometime in 2019,<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Daniellarson/comments/139sc49/comment/jj3gtox/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3</ref> where he allegedly had $500 stolen from him via a gift card scam. This incident can be used as an example of Daniel being trolled even before social media. 

Sometime in 2019, Daniel would start posting to TikTok using the account [[@daniellars20]], which he hardly used. He was also using other social media sites, such as Twitter and Instagram. It's unknown where he obtained a phone from, but it is likely that he bought it himself with the income from the thrift store he worked at. His first known Twitter account is [[@DanielL26324766]], where he'd post about his experiences in the special Olympics, as well as videos of himself hiking.   

Daniel, opposed to what he'd become later in his life, seemed to be more physically fit, as he was enrolled in the Special Olympics and went out for frequent hikes. Even more, he would frequently post the amount of steps he'd attained on his Fitbit.   

[[Briiink]] would make his first appearance 2 days later on a livestream. Briiink would run into Daniel his charging his phone, where he got an autograph and paid Daniel money. It's also around this time that [[Quacko]] started to manipulate Daniel.