Genie Wiley - TLC Documentary (2003)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjZolHCrC8E

Summary

TLDRDas Video behandelt den tragischen Fall eines Mädchens namens Genie, das in Arcadia bei Los Angeles entdeckt wurde. Sie wurde 13 Jahre lang von ihren Eltern in völliger Isolation gehalten, was dazu führte, dass sie nicht sprechen konnte und sich wie ein kleines Kind verhielt. Nach ihrer Entdeckung nahm die Wissenschaft großes Interesse an ihrem Fall, um Theorien über kritische Entwicklungsperioden des menschlichen Gehirns zu erforschen. Trotz anfänglicher Fortschritte in ihrer sprachlichen und sozialen Entwicklung stagnierten ihre Fähigkeiten aufgrund der irreversiblen Schäden, die sie durch die Vernachlässigung erlitt. Ihr Vater beging nach der Aufdeckung Selbstmord, während ihre Mutter zu eingeschüchtert war, um früher zu handeln. Genie wurde letztendlich in Pflegeheime überstellt, wo sie bis heute lebt, ohne Kontakt zu früheren Wissenschaftlern oder Freunden zu haben.

Takeaways

  • 😢 Genies schweres Schicksal zeigt die Auswirkungen extremer Isolation.
  • 🧠 Wissenschaftler sahen in Genie eine Möglichkeit, kritische Phasen im Gehirn zu studieren.
  • 👶 Genie hatte die kognitive Entwicklung eines Kleinkinds mit 13 Jahren.
  • 🏠 Nach ihrer Entdeckung lebte Genie in verschiedenen Pflegeheimen.
  • 🔬 Trotz schnellen Wortlernens konnte Genie keine grammatikalischen Fähigkeiten entwickeln.
  • 💔 Familienprobleme und wissenschaftliche Konflikte beeinträchtigten Genies Rehabilitation.
  • 🎥 Die mediale Berichterstattung machte Genie zu einem bekannten Fall extremer Vernachlässigung.
  • 👥 Nach den anfänglichen medizinischen Studien verlor Genie den Kontakt zu vielen ihrer Bezugspersonen.
  • 📚 Genies Fall wird immer noch in der Bildungs- und Entwicklungspsychologie diskutiert.
  • 🏢 Heute lebt Genie in einem Pflegeheim für Erwachsene.

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    Ein 13-jähriges Mädchen wurde in einem Vorort von Los Angeles entdeckt, das in extremer Isolation gehalten wurde. Sie trug Windeln, konnte nicht sprechen und wurde von ihrem Vater in einem dunklen Raum eingesperrt. Nachbarn wussten nichts von ihrer Existenz. Der Vater nahm sich das Leben, bevor er vor Gericht ging, und die Behörden nahmen das Mädchen in Obhut. Wissenschaftler waren daran interessiert, die Auswirkungen ihrer Isolation auf ihre Sprachfähigkeit zu untersuchen.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:12:27

    Die Wissenschaftler, die mit Genie arbeiteten, stellten fest, dass sie trotz ihrer Isolation eine erstaunliche Lernfähigkeit zeigte und begann, Worte zu lernen. Doch ihre Entwicklung im Sprachbereich stagnierte, weil die kritische Phase für das Erlernen von Grammatik verpasst wurde. Hirnforscher entdeckten später, dass Teile ihres Gehirns für Sprache deformiert waren aufgrund mangelnder Stimulation während ihrer Isolation. Genies Leben verschlechterte sich weiter, als sie in staatliche Pflege kam, wo sie mehr Traumata erlitt, und sie lebt jetzt in einem Pflegeheim ohne Kontakt zu den Wissenschaftlern, die ihr einst nahe standen.

Mind Map

Mind Map

Frequently Asked Question

  • Wer ist Genie?

    Genie ist ein 13-jähriges Mädchen, das in Isolation gelebt hat und schwer misshandelt wurde, was dazu führte, dass sie nicht sprechen oder laufen konnte.

  • Wo wurde Genie gefunden?

    Genie wurde in der Stadt Arcadia in der Nähe von Los Angeles gefunden.

  • Wie lebte Genie vor ihrer Entdeckung?

    Genie lebte in einem dunklen Raum ohne Kontakt zu anderen Menschen, sie war oft in einem Käfigbett oder an einen Toilettenstuhl geschnallt.

  • Was passierte mit ihren Eltern?

    Nach ihrer Entdeckung beging ihr Vater Selbstmord, und ihre Mutter war zu eingeschüchtert, um die Situation früher anzusprechen.

  • Was ist das wissenschaftliche Interesse an Genie?

    Genies Fall weckte starkes wissenschaftliches Interesse, insbesondere in Bezug auf die Sprachentwicklung und kritische Phasen im Gehirn.

  • Welche Fortschritte machte Genie nach ihrer Rettung?

    Genie begann schnell Wörter zu lernen und zeigte Interesse an ihrer Umgebung, obwohl sie grammatikalisch nicht weiterkam.

  • Warum gilt Genie als 'Wolfskind'?

    Trotz ihrer städtischen Umgebung wuchs Genie in fast völliger Isolation auf, vergleichbar mit Kindern, die von Tieren aufgezogen wurden.

  • Was geschah mit Genie nach den ersten wissenschaftlichen Studien?

    Genie verließ das Krankenhaus und wurde von Pflegestelle zu Pflegestelle gebracht, wobei sich ihre Fortschritte verschlechterten.

  • Wurde Genie von den Wissenschaftlern weiter verfolgt?

    Nachdem es zu Konflikten zwischen ihrer Familie und den Wissenschaftlern kam, wurde den Wissenschaftlern der Kontakt zu Genie untersagt.

  • Wo lebt Genie heute?

    Genie lebt in einem Pflegeheim für Erwachsene irgendwo in Los Angeles ohne Kontakt zu den Personen, die sie einst gut kannten.

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    officials in the Los Angeles suburb of
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    Arcadia have taken custody of a 13 year
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    old girl and they say was kept in such
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    isolation by her parents that she never
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    even learned to talk the girl still wore
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    diapers and was uttering infantile
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    noises social worker discovered the case
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    two weeks ago but the authorities are
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    hoping she still may have a normal
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    learning capacity among the first to see
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    the child was Temple City Detective
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    Sergeant Franklin Lee I took one look at
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    her and she wasn't much bigger than my
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    daughter Beverly who had just turned
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    seven about three months earlier and I
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    really had a hard time conceiving of the
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    idea that the child was the age that she
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    was the child obviously had been
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    severely mistreated after she was still
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    in diapers didn't walk she had no verbal
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    skills at all at that point
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    the last time I was on this street was
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    probably thirty years ago
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    there it is
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    hasn't changed much the backyard looks
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    the same it's all weights indeed grass
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    [Music]
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    looks the same as it did in 1970
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    the house belonged to Clark Wiley a
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    loner Clark had turned his back on the
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    world after his mother had been killed
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    in a hit-and-run accident after the
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    accident things in the Wiley house would
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    never be the same again
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    [Music]
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    the house was completely dark all the
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    blinds were drawn there were no toys no
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    clothes nothing that would ever indicate
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    to you that a child of any age lived
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    there
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    the child's bezel wires back in this
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    corner
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    that was the bedroom the windows were
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    covered to about the 3 inches from the
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    top which were the only natural light
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    that had ever come in there and all the
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    time the child was in the bedroom
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    entire furnishings as a bedroom consists
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    of a cage with a pulldown chicken wire
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    lid and some type of piece of wire
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    securing it when they closed it down
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    there was a potty chair with some kind
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    of homemade strapping device for 13
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    years Jeannie had spent her nights
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    locked in bed her days strapped to a
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    potty chair during that time Clark had
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    ordered his son John and wife Irene
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    never to talk to her
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    in her darkened room she had led a life
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    of near total isolation
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    even close neighbors were completely
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    unaware of her presence
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    and the police was here and they came to
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    question us that's when we found found
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    out you know what happened and you know
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    nobody no-nobody knew before
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    we found out what happened and how she
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    was three that I mean everybody was
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    shocked and just unbelievable for their
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    whole marriage Clark had imposed his
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    will on Irene and blind with cataracts
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    she had been too scared to resist but
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    one day something broke while Clark was
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    out buying groceries she seized her
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    chance and fled it was the first glimpse
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    the world would have of Clark and
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    Irene's dark secret I met Clark and I
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    really Temple City sheriff's station
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    they were both under arrest at the time
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    when we interviewed Irene she would make
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    no mention of the family whatsoever
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    particularly the children he attempted
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    along with my partner to interview Clark
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    he refused to talk to us he wouldn't say
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    a word he never even acknowledged that
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    he understood what we were talking about
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    mr. Wylie why did you keep your daughter
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    mr. Wylie has no comment no we haven't
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    had time to discuss the charge we
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    haven't even seen them unable to face
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    the truth Clark took matters into his
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    own hands
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    [Music]
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    this morning the authorities reported
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    the 70 year old Clark Wylie shot and
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    killed himself just before he was to go
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    to the court of the arraign for firing
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    after 13 years Jeannie was at last free
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    and for scientists she was just the case
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    they had been waiting for for 13 years
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    Jeannie had lived a life of complete
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    isolation raised in a city bedroom
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    Jeannie was as much a feral child as if
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    she had been brought up by wolves at 13
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    she was the size of a six year old worst
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    of all she had never been taught to
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    speak the question now could she ever
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    learn
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    [Music]
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    Jeanne's case was so scientifically
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    important that the government funded a
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    team of scientists to help answer the
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    many questions she posed
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    two of the scientists who would become
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    especially important to Jeannie or child
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    psychologist James Kent and linguist
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    Susan Curtis neither had ever
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    encountered a case as Extreme as
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    Jeannie's we looked at her yes he as a
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    newborn in a way even though we know she
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    hadn't she came with 13 years of
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    memories and experience it's not all of
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    them wonderful most of them not I think
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    so we thought we needed to start
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    exposure to what the world is gonna be
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    like for her outside the hospital bed -
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    Jeannie everything was a new experience
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    we did what you would do with with your
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    own kids if you were introducing into
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    the world you take them out and hold
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    them up and show them sort of judged
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    from how they reacted to whether this
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    was too much or not enough and you could
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    move on and do the next thing
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    Jeannie was making amazing progress as
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    the experts looked on they realized that
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    she might be the answer to the question
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    that had troubled science for so long so
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    we seized this wonderful opportunity
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    that she provided us in as loving away
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    as we could but using it to finally get
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    our chance to address head-on specific
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    hypotheses and notions about human
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    language and the human mind these
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    hypotheses were based on the latest
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    ideas about how children's brains
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    developed according to the theory young
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    children could only learn certain things
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    at certain times called critical periods
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    language was one of these critical
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    periods and according to the theory
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    genie who was now a teenager had missed
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    her chance forever
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    but incredibly Jeannie seemed to be
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    proving the theory wrong as this footage
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    shows Jeannie was blossoming not only
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    was she delighted by the world around
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    her but she was learning the words for
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    the new things she was seeing
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    she was extremely interested in
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    everything around her she wanted to know
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    the word for everything around her she
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    wanted to engage people all around her
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    she was not mentally deficient her
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    lights were on and everyone who worked
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    with her from teachers to therapists to
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    me knew that she was not [ __ ] it was
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    clear as day and as she began to learn
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    more more words hundreds of words much
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    more rapidly than they ever imagined
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    and swinging them together I began to
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    think maybe I will be wrong maybe she
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    will be the one that will prove that
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    this hypothesis is incorrect but Jeanne
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    could not escape the effects of her past
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    so easily she was still haunted by her
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    traumatic upbringing trapped by the
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    memories of the awful fate she had
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    suffered and linguistically she had
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    stopped making progress
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    she learned tons of which she has an
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    enormous vocabulary but language is not
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    words language is grammar languages
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    sentences how do you make a sentence
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    what can be a sentence what is esand
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    how do you automatically know something
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    sentence
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    so wasn't because he was cognitively
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    deficient in other respects it was
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    because she was cognitively deficient in
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    this island of human mind the mental
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    faculty that we called Grammer at the
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    time Jeannie was found brain science was
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    in its infancy but today we have a much
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    clearer picture of what actually happens
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    in cases of extreme neglect like genies
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    in genies brand the left part of her her
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    brand they her cortex that that has
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    those neural systems responsible for
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    speech and language because she never
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    heard any words and because she was
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    never taught spoken to very often they
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    didn't get stimulated and because they
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    weren't stimulated they got smaller and
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    less functional and disconnected and
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    ultimately that part of the brain
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    literally physically changes today with
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    modern imaging technology we can
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    actually see what happens in the brains
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    of feral children and the effects are
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    shocking without normal stimulation
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    their brains are smaller and malformed
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    and the earlier this neglect begins and
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    the longer it carries on the worse the
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    damage will be starved of stimulation
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    Jeanne's brain had simply not developed
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    the capacity for language and now that
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    she was a teenager she would never be
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    able to learn despite this Genie
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    continued to be a closed part of
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    everyone's life but there was more
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    trouble ahead
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    [Music]
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    children have to belong to somebody when
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    they grow up and she was still a child
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    and she needed a family to belong to so
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    that's what we would have like a family
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    that she could belong to what happened
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    what did happen is about the worst
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    outcome I think we would have envisioned
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    on her 18th birthday
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    Janie moved back with her mother Irene
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    into the house in which she had been so
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    terribly abused but after only a few
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    weeks it was clear that Irene couldn't
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    cope from here Jeannie was moved into
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    State care with terrible consequences I
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    was a student and people wouldn't listen
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    to me people who needed to intervene did
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    not listen to me and so I spent lots and
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    lots of time on the phone pleading with
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    people to intervene and save this person
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    who had had the worst experience of
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    deprivation and isolation in all with
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    her medical history Jeannie moved from
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    home to home sometimes with the very
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    people who served as her therapists this
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    potential conflict of interests raised
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    tensions among the many people involved
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    in her life and a tug of war erupted
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    over the child as Jeannie's condition
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    deteriorated Irene decided that Susan
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    Curtis and the other academics had
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    become too close to Jeannie a lawsuit
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    followed
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    I went from being asked to be her
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    guardian - one week later being
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    prevented from seeing her or phoning her
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    and ever since then I've been prevented
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    from having any contact at all so
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    although I have lots of you know that
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    I'm still a scientist I'm still
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    interested in knowing things about her
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    language now and all kinds of
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    interesting things I would like to
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    pursue academically primarily I would
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    just like to see her now a ward of the
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    court
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    Jeanne lives in an adult care home
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    somewhere in Los Angeles prevented from
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    seeing the people who once meant so much
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    to her
Tags
  • Genie
  • Isolation
  • Misshandlung
  • Sprachentwicklung
  • kritische Phasen
  • Wissenschaft
  • Gehirnentwicklung
  • Pflegeheim
  • Los Angeles
  • Forschung