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Feral child e. g. 1970, a 13-year-old girl looks like 6-8 year old. For more than 10 years, she was locked in a tiny, dark room with no human contact except beating if she made noise. She understood a few words and could form only brief sentences and showed few signs of emotion or interest in connecting with those around her. ( once a pattern has been placed it"s hard to change) At 18 her mother regained custody, cut off all contact with her caretaker, later lost custody again, and genie disappeared into a world of >>> Extreme cases like these show us that being human is, like pretty much everything we"ve learned about, more like a skill than an innate ability; it"s something we learn through practice (being a functional human is a skill) Being human is something we become, rather than merely something we are.
