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pineapple07
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I heard about this a while ago. What i want to know is why the children can only talk in animal noises. I mean, the mother could speak. And didnt they have a tv down there?
As disturbing as it sounds I bet those were the noises daddy/grandpa made during sex. And as sad as it sounds possibly the daughter didn't even want to look at her children, let alone teach them to speak because of the reason as to why there were here. Or possibly daddy/grandpa didn't want them to be able to speak....think about it as far as his wife knew, the daughter was gone. If you heard childrens voices it would've been suspicious BUT animal noises? Blame it on a stray and life goes on.
That doesnt explain why they can barely speak normally and prefer to communicate in animal noises. If the father didnt want them to be able to speak that doesnt mean that the mother/daughter couldnt have taught them so that they could raise suspicions.
I'm pretty sure she gave birth in the cellar, not in the hospital. They only went to the hospital because the mother/daughter or one of the kids was sick i think, and thats when the guy got caught
Me being raised in a family of reclusive/shy/loner inclined people, I'd have to say that the 'animal noises' are just an extreme version of how I act sometimes. When your around someone long enough, you create your own sort of language that you communicate with.
Me and my brother wouldn't exactly 'talk' very much, but my mom has described us looking back as being eachother's best friends while growing up. We'd poke eachother, we'd look at eachother for a moment before laughing for seemingly no reason, and even these days, when we're all in the car together with Mom and Dad breaking into little squabbles, he'll give me the 'look at them, going at it again!' and I'll give back one saying 'they never change.'
I also get that with some children a lot. Some of them are just drawn to me for some reason, and we could have little mini discussions without saying anything at all. Its more like 'playing' that what we'd call talking, really, but we're still communicating.
I get frustrated sometimes when talking to people, too. Its really uncomfortable for me to meet new people, and sometimes its like I can't find the word on the tip of my tongue, or that they aren't even getting half of what I am saying. I can totaly understand how they'd have trouble communicationg with people if they have never seen the outside before - its not like the TV will ever talk back to you or ask questions.
And It also kinda makes since that the mom, by herself, couldn't do much to fix this. As kids, it would be natral to overhear conversations over and over again when we're young and impressionable, and over time to learn how a conversation works. But as mom is raising the kids, who is she going to have a conversation with? I can't imagine her having many converations with her father, since he showed up only every three days or so (and I personally would want to make those meetings as short as possible). That leaves her by herself, to ether watch TV (which eather has nothing to do with actual conversation, or has fake conversations.), or coo her babies and take care of them (which, while it is usually used to help a child recognize the inflections of speech, would probably here only induce the cooing and noises instead of words).
There is also the fact that their mother was left alone, away from the outside world for a very extended period. Most people don't quite grasp how much constantly being alone truly ******** you up - hell, I've only managed to realize how much not talking to friends for the last few years has truely stunted my IRL social skills. I imagine it would be ten times worse if you had no control over it and didn't even have the option of a computer - heck, even a few more books would have helped all of them loads.
That's basically my jist on it, anyways. I wouldn't call their speech skills simply an 'extreme of the norm', since most everyone who really knows me has called me weird and/or crazy -meaning I'm abnormal anyways- but anyone who can read a social cue might be willing to see the connection on a certain level.
(...Damn, I wrote way too much! Oh well...)
