Raised by dogs in her home after her mother neglected her

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldne ... l?ITO=1490

I used to think there is no way humans can be raised by animals but it's true it can happen but the way we see it in Disney movies, Tarzan, The Jungle Book, it doesn't work like that about how humans can easily adapt to the human world and learn after being raised by animals.

I recall a case in Germany in the early 1990s, the child was taken away by social services.

The child was looked after by a female dog which had already given birth to puppies herself.

I have no idea what happened to the dog, I think that the dog should have been rehoused with a loving family and given a nice place to live out her years.

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Diagnosed under the DSM5 rules with autism spectrum disorder, under DSM4 psychologist said would have been AS (299.80) but I suspect that I am somewhere between 299.80 and 299.00 (Autism) under DSM4.

the mother must have taken care of the dogs though.

sad, poor little girl

Another haunting true story that we all cannot help but learn from, and hopefully gain some strength in our own lives, children have a wonderful survival instinct and its surprising in what conditions world world many children have no chance but to survive or not!

The Girl in the Window - A feral child, deprived of her humanity by a lack of nurturing...http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2008/reports/danielle/
This artricle goes into more depth about her mother:
http://tampabay.com/features/humaninter ... 750838.ece

It mentions that she has environmental autism, guess it would be hard to at first do any real test, environmental factors may impact on who we are - our autism, but does not give it to us.... from the very short audio it seem clear to me she could possibly be on the autism spectrum, so I do wonder why the professionals could not see that, instead they suggest the child was made autistic - when will the world really understand or learn - maybe she survived because of her autism!

When I was a child my situation was far from normal, but as children we know no difference... I use to just stare, and I have like a shutter system - which I still do, if there is some think that I do not like the shutters start coming down, and I start to withdraw, close off, shut down.. I often withdraw as a child and even never really spoke for a while. There are so many autism children who do this with amazing parents, but feel often it because they feel alienated, misunderstood. I feel it’s our safety mechanism to safeguard us from an often very unforgiving world, with rules that are not made for us.

This situation is so horrendous it’s hard for any of us to really relate to, but I also cannot help but wonder how much of this story is exaggerated by people who just cannot comprehend situations so vastly different from their own.

Parts of childhood I do not discuss as feel others will not understand, judge wrongly. Even maybe think I have made bits up. I do not need others telling me parts of my childhood were horrendous, because to me that’s just how it was... as for many others. The one thing I needed so much as a young adult was to be able to talk about my life, have normal conversations... but there are even guidelines for what we do and do not say.... we all need to remember the way we view things, may be viewed totally differently by someone else.

I am not trying to compare with this child, as no one should suffer the way she has, but things like this happen and continue to happen, and until more people take note, talk about and ask more questions so many more children will suffer in silent. Sometimes extreme examples are needed so that maybe the real world will really start to listen, but it should not just be there shock we get from this, as we all need to see the bigger picture!

It appears that the dogs were better parents to her than her "human" parents.