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Re:A girl was found living among monkeys in an Indian forest by dougmwne on Friday April 07, 2017 @09:01PM (#14064639)
Surely debatable. It's true that reintegration typically fails. Ferral children reveal how normal neural development requires early exposure to language and socialization. Most never acquire language.

We are truly social creatures.

Re:A girl was found living among monkeys in an Indian forest by Houshalter on Friday April 07, 2017 @11:49PM (#14065194)
Feral children usually suffered terrible trauma and abuse. Often they were disabled even before being abandoned. It's hard to separate those issues from the mere lack of being taught language. There are deaf people who weren't taught sign language until later in life, and they turn out ok.

Also she arguably got some socialization from the monkeys. I mean that's probably very imperfect. But it's very different than the cases of kids being locked up in rooms with no contact to anything.