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While studying Bioinformatics, I took few minutes to search
about children with abnormal linguistics cases that my friend in the collage of
humanities sciences told me about
earlier. Although it wasn’t what I was looking for I came to find a very
interesting story of a wild child called “Genie”.
She was isolated for nearly 13 years because her father
thought she was retarded and she was abused for talking or being talked to
until one day a social worker found her and the father shot himself shortly
after.
A human being without a mother language was what made Genie’s
case so different and will there be any hope for her to be normal again is what
kept the scientists motivated at that time ..!
This is truly a sad yet inspiring story that makes someone think about the
blessings he/she owns and bring us to be aware of how fragile a human being can
be if messed up at an early stage in his life ..
Our minds can be so complicated and full of surprises so always
excuse others behavior and never judge a person capabilities without knowing the
life he lived or the problems he faced ..
I strongly recommend watching the videos on youtube especially for those who are interested in linguistics !!
PART 1:
Nowadays Genie is 54 and staying at adult care home
somewhere in LA.
