isolation

When we watched the video about the young girl who lived in isolation her entire life I was in shock. I couldn not believe that a mother could do that to her own daughter. How could one person grow up without any human contact? And also the conditions in which she was brought up in were terrible. She was found in an old diaper, dirty, with bugs in her hair. I just cannot believe how well the mom was able to hide her from the rest of the world for so long. EVerything that we know/do today is what we have grown up learning by watching others. She didn't know how to walk or to talk and brain was like that of a 6 month old when she was at age 9. HOw this little girl didn't go crazy being couped up in there, I do not know. I could never live in total isolation from everyone else. I need to be around other people that's just how I am. I need to go out and have fun with friends. Being locked in a room all day everyday would kill me and I'd probably go insane. The fact that the young girl from the video was rescued and given a new life with a new family is amazing. Slowly she'll learn how to interact better with people, eat better, and soak up some more knowledge in that tiny brain of hers.