Genie Presentation

Bits of the 1994 documentary by BBC Horizon for my presentation on Genie.

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Education

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• Genie
• deprived
• wildchild

[xlun4ticx]

genie is beautiful.

[Cutiestef124]

this makes my heart melt...shes so beautiful and thanks to a horrible man. her life wasnt what it should have been.

[sagganuts18]

@canehdn05 thanks for the info, that's really unfortunate...

[canehdn05]

@sagganuts18 I wish this were true but I have studied her in a psych class and a scoiology class and Genie is now in her fifties and lives in a group home in california her real name is Susan Wiley she has a brother who lives in Ohio but he does not see her. Genie regressed and is now again mute. She was never adopted but was placed ina series of foster homes she was abused in one for throwing up. she was given back to her blind mother for a short time but she coukd not care for her

[sagganuts18]

@xoxmeghanoxo Ive read that the funding for her in the scientific community was cut off, so she was adopted, and a few of the families were themselves abusive, and now shes in foster care. Not sure how reliable my source is though.

[xoxmeghanoxo]

@sk8erkid6485 apparently she was given back to her mother because it was thought that her father was the abuser and he committed suicide after they found her. But she was taken out of the mother's care on abuse charges. This is what i heard in my psych class. I don't know the accuracy of it.

[spartan2897]

I'm watching you Mr. Anderson

[sk8erkid6485]

Whatever happened to her :/

[mesfern]

@3909clancy

The book is called "Genie: a Psycholinguistic Study of a Modern-Day "Wild Child". It was published in 1977. Unfortunately, even though it's still the best source on Genie, there hasn't been any newer edition.

But yes, it's the kind of read that never ceases to either disturb or amaze you. Shame that it leaves with the hope Genie would have "the last word" *sigh*.

[3909clancy]

@mesfern Ahh I never knew that.What is the name of the book Susan Curtiss wrote?

Thanks for the info.The whole saga as disturbing as it is,amazes me.Not just Genie but how parents can see there own child and do evil things to them daily and go on as if nothing is wrong.

[mesfern]

@3909clancy

Actually, the "Genie Team" were very much aware of that initial diagnosis. Susan Curtiss even mentions in her book: "at 14 months, Genie developed an acute illness (pneumonitis) and was taken to a different pediatrician. Feverish, she was listless and unresponsive; this physician stated that she showed signs of possible retardation but because of the fever, it was difficult to access her development".

[3909clancy]

I still don't understand why they couldn't speak to the originial DR that she saw when she was an infant to see if he did say she was retarted