Genie, a magical spirit that never left the lamp

Genie lived his first 13 years of life in a room, isolated from the world and sitting practically all day on a potty.His real name was Susan M.Wiley , and today he already has about 58 years, however, the world knew her as «Genie», because that was the name she used to call her one of the specialists who treated her.

Genie It was like that little genius hidden in a magic lamp, a special being confined in his own brain and in his own loneliness, someone who could never really emerge from his darkness and that jail where his family introduced her, and then, society itself.

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Genie, the fierce girl from California

Genie was not raised in a forest or abandoned by her parents.This is a unique case of those that sometimes occur in our same cities, incomprehensible cases that, for whatever reasons, may be occurring in many of those houses that, from the outside, seem have a normal appearance.Genie's story happened in the late 50s in California.

To better understand how unfortunate this story, we must start talking about her parents.Irene Wiley was a young girl who She suffered progressive blindness. She had given birth to a child and a girl, but also, she had also suffered 4 abortions.To her health problems, she was also joined by an aggressive and authoritarian husband. Very authoritarian.

Genie, a magical spirit that never left the lamp

It Clark Wiley said that he hated children extremely, that he suffered a very serious depression after the death of his mother in a car accident, and that he was one of those men who faced life with violence, discharging his anger at the weakest, before that woman 20 years younger than him, and towards his two young children.However, his character darkened even more when a pediatrician told them that his girl, that little Susan, in addition to a dislocation congenital hip, also suffered a small mental retardation.Therefore I would not have started talking despite being almost 2 years old.

Clark Wiley deduced that it could only mean one thing.: that the state was going to withdraw custody of the girl.And what did he do then? Remove her from society , hide her, leave that girl in a corner with deficiencies so that society would not see her imperfections and so that they also did not take her away.Did he do it for "love ? For a strange and incomprehensible mercy? Sometimes it is difficult to understand the human mind, but what we do know is what happened next.

Genie, a magical spirit that never left the lamp

Genie spent the first 13 years of his life locked in a room, dressed in a honeycomb and tied to in turn to a "potty chair." He was forbidden to make noises, and therefore, he was vetoed with it the possibility of learning to speak.At night, his father introduced her into a sleeping bag and in turn, in the inside a wooden cage.If Genie committed the imprudence of making noises, her father beat her or even barked at him like a dog to frighten her .The girl spent her first 13 years of life in a closed room where he could only observe 5 centimeters of sky, which gave him a small and "magical" vent.

Maybe at this point you may wonder what about his mother? And his brother? Well, it wasn't until 13 years passed when Irene Wiley had the opportunity to escape.And she did it thanks to her mother, taking Genie and her brother with her.However, her economic situation was precarious, without even counting that she was almost blind, with which, he had to ask the social workers for help. And that was when the world knew about the existence of a girl who moved like an animal, who did not speak, and who had the look suspended in an invisible and unattainable point, as if there, a window opened that only she could see.Immediately, the girl was placed in state custody, and the parents, accused of negligence.

Genie, a magical spirit that never left the lamp

What happened to Genie a from that day? Do I find happiness? Could you develop any cognitive progress with which to integrate into society? The truth is that no.Genie's story was sad during her childhood, and it was the clear example of neglect and incompetence on the part of society.She was treated for a few years in the «Mental Health Association of the United States », where he could learn to say simple phrases, isolated words...but it was ruled that the advances were not very remarkable and that the economic investment invested in it was too high.Solution? Send her back to her mother, who had already had her visual problem.

However, Irene Wiley didn't know how to meet Genie's needs.She was "too much work." The following years were an unfortunate succession of adoptive homes where he found more abuse and a clear involvement in his skills and emotional balance. It is known that today, this woman of sad past, who never It gave him the opportunity to learn, to develop within his abilities and to have a life with all his competences, he resides in an adult care institution in Los Angeles.

They said that she was a beautiful girl, that shed light in her curious gaze , always suspended in an imaginary point where she surely had her personal refuge.

If you were interested in this article, we invite you to also know the sad story of the orphans of Duplessis.

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