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Bundy varied his recollections of Tacoma in later years. To Michaud and Aynesworth, he described roaming his neighborhood, picking through trash barrels in search of pictures of naked women{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1989|p=22}} and to attorney and author [[Polly Nelson]] he said that he perused detective magazines, and [[crime novel]]s for stories that involved [[sexual violence]], particularly when the stories were illustrated with pictures of dead or maimed women.{{sfn|Nelson|1994|pp=277–278}} In a letter to Rule, however, he asserted that he "never, ever read fact-detective magazines, and shuddered at the thought that anyone would."{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=612}} He once told Michaud that he would consume large quantities of alcohol and "canvass the community" late at night in search of undraped windows where he could observe women undressing, or "whatever [else] could be seen."{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1989|pp=74–77}} Psychologist Al Carlisle claimed that Bundy "started fantasizing about women he saw while window peeping or elsewhere [and] mimicking the accents of some politicians he listened to on the radio. In essence, he was fantasizing about being someone else, someone important."<ref name=childhood/>
Bundy's childhood
Accounts of Bundy's social life also varied. He told journalists Michaud and Aynesworth that he "chose to be alone" as an adolescent because he was unable to understand interpersonal relationships;{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=64}} he also claimed to have no natural sense of how to develop friendships. "I didn't know what made people want to be friends," Bundy said. "I didn't know what underlay social interactions."{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=66}} "Some people perceived me as being shy and introverted," he said. "I didn't go to dances. I didn't go on the beer drinking outings. I was a pretty, you might call me straight, but not a social outcast in any way."<ref name=childhood/> Classmates from [[Woodrow Wilson High School (Tacoma, Washington)|Woodrow Wilson High School]], however, told Rule that Bundy was "well known and well liked" there, "a medium-sized fish in a large pond."{{sfn|Rule|2009|p=13}} Bundy's only significant athletic avocation was downhill skiing, which he pursued enthusiastically with stolen equipment and [[forgery|forged]] lift tickets.{{sfn|Michaud|Aynesworth|1999|p=62}} During high school, he was arrested at least twice on suspicion of [[burglary]] and [[motor vehicle theft]]. When he was 18 years old, the details of the incidents were expunged from his record, as is customary in Washington and many other states.{{sfn|Rule|2009|pp=13–14}}
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