On July 21, 1951, Robin McLaurin Williams was born in Chicago, Illinois (Biography). His father was Auto Company executive Robert Fitzgerald Williams and his mother was model Laura McLaurin; they were not very family oriented which took a toll on Williams. How his comical act truly started was with his mother. While she worked all the time he felt as though he needed some way to gain her attention. He thought to himself, “I’ll make Mommy laugh and that will be okay” (Herbert 31). He not only used it for his mother’s attention, but also to keep “[him from] being bullied. [See] boys taunted him because he was, as they saw it, small, fat and well spoken. He was also dyslexic which meant he struggled in school and, in all likelihood, suffered from