@spooky-degorius's comment on 'Indian :marseytunaktunak: hunter gatherer :marseyr-slurchad: child's story resonates with redditor's :soyreddit: experience as an "isolated child slave" :quote:.'

https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1fq1hkq/found_in_1867_inside_a_jungle_cave_this_feral_boy/

To be honest, all the medical intervention in the world probably couldn't have changed him, the parts of his brain that weren't needed for wolf behavior probably atrophied beyond repair/never grew, I grew up an isolated child slave and my brain is significantly atrophied, I could only imagine the damage his took.

Time to do an AMA

Homeschooling in America allows kids to be treated however the parents want, because they're never checked on, not by anyone, I grew up on a farm and wasn't allowed contact with anyone outside the farm, and I was severely abused, my parents lost the farm in 2008 when I was 9 and we moved somewhere more populated, my life changed for 2 years and as I began to feel human I was moved back to a farm in 2010 but it wasn't quite as bad as before as I had internet, in 2020 my parents had trouble paying for the place so my dad would drop me off at work, which they wouldn't do before, so I was finally able to get a job, they mooched off of me pretty heavily which made moving out difficult, but I've done it twice, once in a city, and once living in my car, but this economy combined with my brain and health issues have made it hard to maintain, I've been to the doctor for my issues and they say I likely have brain damage which I believe.

Wow, same here! I was also raised isolated on a farm in the middle of nowhere. One of nine kids and no access to internet or tv. We had DVDs/VHS but only with express permission, and they were all kids movie or previously approved movies (LOTR, Star Wars original trilogy, black and white movies, etc.).

We also weren't allowed to listen to music beyond classical music, or old stuff like Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, etc. I remember my mom had some country music CDs that she kept locked away and every now and then we would be "treated" to one or two songs from them, but then they would be locked up again.

To say the real world was a culture shock is an understatement. I'm in my 30s now and I'm STILL uncovering some things that I didn't know about, but most people assume is common knowledge.

Sorry to hear you experienced it too. It was a major butthole move on our parents' part, and I hope you're in a much better place now. ❤️

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spooky-degorius giga/boosted 8=👊=D~● 24d ago #7080340

Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves, was an allegory for the Bong author growing up with Poos. What happened to media literacy?

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KONY_2022 giga/boosted N░e░v░e░r░☆░g░o░o░n░ spooky-degorius 24d ago #7080474

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kiwicat they/them spooky-degorius 24d ago #7080594

I don't know if that's try but I'll repeat it

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spooky-degorius giga/boosted 8=👊=D~● kiwicat 24d ago #7080706

A major theme in the book is abandonment followed by fostering, as in the life of Mowgli, echoing Kipling's own childhood. The theme is echoed in the triumph of protagonists including Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and The White Seal over their enemies, as well as Mowgli's. Another important theme is of law and freedom; the stories are not about animal behaviour, still less about the Darwinian struggle for survival, but about human archetypes in animal form. They teach respect for authority, obedience, and knowing one's place in society

Dude also wrote the poem The White Man's Burden

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