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Reading the quote, it does sound more like he completely overexaggerated how bad things were since he mentioned things like being beaten up by his brother and being stuck inside doing chores alone. It wasn't actual abuse but it seems less like the teacher's mistake and more like his own.
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^Yeah, I'm inclined to agree. If the book has scenes of things that did not happen, like beatings for instance, the teacher assuming that abuse is going on would be a perfectly reasonable conclusion to reach.
On Quotes.Abuse Mistake, I added the quote from a TheOdd1sOut video about his book. The quote entailed a book a child James wrote titled I Do Not Like This Family, which he thinks might have made the teacher think he was abused, when actually he had a great childhood but just hated chores.
A user named animuacid removed it, however, with the edit reason "This quote doesn't meet the new definition of innocent things mistaken as abuse." But I think it does — he gave the book that title for a mundane reason, but the teacher may have mistaken it for abuse.