WIld Child Reflection

Watching Wild Child was very frightening to me. I did not understand how a family could just lock their child up in a room for 13 years. The father claimed she was mentally disabled since birth, but how would he be able to tell? Or why couldn't he look into adoption? Anyway, the interesting part was learning about how they were teaching her to try to make her become "normal". It is a shame that the teachings were working, and then the funds were cut. When the funds were cut, it sort of eliminated chances of normalizing her. It was also disturbing to hear that some of her foster parents were abusive and unhelpful. It is a shame that happened because it would have been interesting to see if she could learn everything she missed. Two of my biggest questions were, what is the mind's deadline for being able to acquire basic knowledge, and did Genie have the ability to feel the emotions of love or friendship. I questioned that because Genie moved around a lot, and I thought they should gave given her a stable full-time family, since that is what she missed out on as a child. Overall, I experienced different ideas from watching the documentary, it was very interesting.