Although Dali was from a wealth family, his father believed he should attend a local communal school (Etherington-Smith, 1992a). His parents would dress him in fine sailor suits, quite different from the clothing worn by the less fortunate children resulting in intense bullying (Etherington-Smith, 1992a). Dali’s phobias of grasshoppers began when his classmates would torture him with grasshoppers abusively, until grasshoppers were banned from the school (Etherington-Smith, 1992a).