Genie Wiley: The Feral Child

The irreparable damage that is endured by a child from abuse and isolation for 13 years.

Genie was a child whom had been isolated and abused for 13 years. She was held in isolation
in a room where there were only two objects placed. Her room is far from a normal sweet
little girl’s room and instead of bedtime stories, she is being tied on her sleeping bag and her
crib is covered by metal when its bedtime, a child’s prison. After 13 years, her isolation
seemingly came to a halt when she finally got out of her room and was taken to her
grandparent’s house. By chance, she was spotted by a social worker and have a talk to her
and her mother; after hearing their brief story, the social worker was shock and eventually
called the authorities that led to the arrestment of genie’s parent. News have spread; medical
doctors and specialist have engaged to help the feral child whom had very weak muscles in
her arms and legs – most of her body is below average in development; and her linguistic
language is similar to a 13 months old child.

Genie was put on an isolation in her childhood – meaning she missed the crucial moment for
a child to develop its social interaction – she is highly anti-social. Her vocabulary is nothing
like a 13 year’s old and could not even express emotion and gestures as a way of
communicating; Unlike other child she does not know much sound as she was kept in a
house that forbid noise and is always silent. The way she behaves is nothing like an abused
child that her psychiatrist had handled before; One thing being is that she lacks social
interaction or even, close to none. Her case can be concluded how socialization affects or
possibly build a human. The documentary had featured many experts to the matter that were
new to a wild case like that. They have struggled to entirely cure or made significant progress
for genie – as it was a case that is unheard of. They witness what denial of the most important
time of cognitive development happen results to. The way a human develops from birth to
being fully develop, physically, mentally, and socially. It even had lots of study and featuring
on articles – that have been found by her biological mother as offensive; but in concise, the
focus is a child being in isolation for 13 years without any proper contact to any human. This
can be sum up to human develop is being a sensitive stage. Isolation, abuse, lack of social
interaction, and bad parenting is a great factor of being oneself. The nature of man from the
beginning to present does not differ; a factor that initiate cognitive development is socializing
with one another. The building of oneself can be traced back from the early age of a person;
the way a person behaves right or wrong can be accredited from his past experience,
therefore child abuse cannot be overseen and everyone should work on putting an end to such
heinous crime.
Genie has been put through a situation no one should ever experience; but thankfully that
wicked experience came to an end and many experts have work with her through her
development although it is considered failed, her living a simple and private can be
accounted as a happy life. But this odious experience still happens to this day; maybe not as
what genie went through, but the fact that social restraint and abuse has an immense effect to
oneself, this crime should be put to an end. If you ever feel being restrained in an
unjustifiable way or being abuse, Seek Help, there are a lot of foundations that will help you
and specialist that will work with you to go through your experience and trauma. You should
put an end to your unpleasant experience as the feral child genie go through, her story of
escaping domestic abuse and being on a wild state and being help by people depict that there
are people who will help you to erase or help you cope with memories or experience you did
not ask for.