On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 1:14 PM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
> yes. heartbreaking. very very interesting insights into language,
> socialization, the way that social interaction is absolutely required
> for any of that to take root, her inability to be touched or hugged
> without recoiling in fear, terror, and pain, tendencies toward
> tantrums and anger, ...
>
> so much that we think is natural is totally dependent on the social.
>
>
>> seriously.
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Damn… tears.
>>> A
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:15 AM, shag carpet bomb
>>> <shag at cleandraws.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Fascinating story of a "feral" child discovered in the greater
>>>> Tampa
>>>> area. She'd been raised in a state of horrible neglect for nearly 7
>>>> years:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.tampabay.com/features/humaninterest/article750838.ece
>>>>
>>>> Part One: The Feral Child
>>>>
>>>> PLANT CITY — The family had lived in the rundown rental house for
>>>> almost three years when someone first saw a child's face in the
>>>> window.
>>>>
>>>> A little girl, pale, with dark eyes, lifted a dirty blanket above
>>>> the
>>>> broken glass and peered out, one neighbor remembered.
>>>>
>>>> Everyone knew a woman lived in the house with her boyfriend and two
>>>> adult sons. But they had never seen a child there, had never
>>>> noticed
>>>> anyone playing in the overgrown yard.
>>>>
>>>> The girl looked young, 5 or 6, and thin. Too thin. Her cheeks
>>>> seemed
>>>> sunken; her eyes were lost.
>>>>
>>>> The child stared into the square of sunlight, then slipped away.
>>>>
>>>> Months went by. The face never reappeared.
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