Feral Children; RETURN FROM THE WILD

In my high school psychology class along with learning about Genie we also learned about a "wild child" named Victor who was raised in France. Those stories are crazy! Genie's story was particularly sad because she was really abused. She never even learned how to talk because she had passed the age where a person can learn a language. It's amazing how people can treat children.

Oh my friend, if you had read on you would have seen it was in fact much worse. See, after the city surveyor was pelted with cinderblocks and eaten, a group of civic leaders, concerned citizens and local media stormed up into that wooded canyon, whereupon they too were promptly killed (again with cinderblocks) and devoured. It turned into a real black eye for the community, let me tell you.

When I was younger I loved watching the Disney movie Tarzan and always wanted to have a gorilla friend and grow up in a tree house. Feral children lead a much different and ultimately more depressing life. Disney misconstrues history and real life all the time...feral children is just another example. It's really sad to think about all these forgotten children forced to fend for themselves.

You quoted: "No matter how fascinating, scientifically interesting or even romantic some of these stories seem, it isn't much fun to be a feral child, wolf boy or wild girl. We shouldn't forget that all these children have been abandoned, neglected or even cruelly abused..."

This is an understatement. Apart from the initial trauma... Imagine not belonging anywhere, not having anything in common with the "race" you have been told and somehow deep down inside of you, know that you belong to. Having a deep down longing to just fit in somewhere... It's so lonely sometimes, all you want to do is either lay down and cry or howl. You do your best to fake it and fit in but...