Feral Children

...ctual impairment or physical disabilities. Some of the feral children can experience abuse or trauma before being abounded. Legend and Fiction suggest that bears, wolves, or other normally hostile animals can adopt feral children as one of their own. Two famous fictional examples include the Disney movies The Jungle Book and Tarzan. The feral children in these stories often grow up with normal human intelligence and have very adequate survival instincts. The children seem to integrate easily into human society. While in reality, feral children are usually mentally impaired and have a very hard time learning any human language. Feral children are DIFFERENT from autistic or mentally retarded children- both of these conditions are due to aberrations of the normal biological development process. Children with these conditions are usually sociable to their limits and capabilities. While feral children may exhibit the usual range of biological developmental potential, but fail to develop normal human communication skills as a result of growing up in social isolation without a learning sourc...

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