The promise.

by - 10:25 AM

Okay, here's the thing I promised you guys yesterday..
The person who found out the boy who was raised by the dogs wrote a book about him (how touching) ...



The Boy Who was Raised as a Dog by Dr. Bruce D. Perry and Maia Szalavitz.

And the boy's name is Justin o.o
Well, the guy named him Justin.
Soooo, Justin is a boy...that does everything like a dog.
I wonder if he'll kena food poisoning by eating stuff dogs eat O.O
Okay, moving on to the story...

bla bla bla...people found him...sent to hospital..and PANG!

Dr. Bruce (let's just call him B now) met Justin when he (J) was 6 years old in 1995.
He was in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). B was invited by the PICU staff to take a looksie at him and using that-psychiatric voodoo-that-you-do-so-well, try to stop him from throwing feces and food at the staff (LOL)
The PICU was almost always full and was typically busy 24/7. Nurses, physicians, aides and families crowded the unit. The noise from medical machines, phones, and conversations kept the large room filled with a non-stop buzz. There were always lights on, people were always moving around and, although each individual moved with purpose and each conversation was focused, the overall effect was chaos.

B walked unnoticed by any human being and studied the board of the boy he was supposed to see. Then, B heard HIM.
B said in his book (Chapter 6):
"A loud, odd shriek made me turn immediately to find a bony little child in a loose diaper sitting in a cage. Justin's crib had iron bars and a plywood panel wired to the top of it. It looked like a dog cage, which I was about to discover was terribly ironic. The little boy rocked back and forth, whimpering a primitive self-soothing lullaby."

A primitive self-soothing lullaby?!?! o.o weird.

B said that the dog-boy was covered by his own feces (EEEEWW!), there was food all over his face (fun?) and his DIAPER was soaked with urine (another EWWW).
I would not want to change that diaper. Ew.
The boy was throwing feces and food at the staff. (ew. ew. ewwww..)
I think he did that because of anxiety..since he lost his mother and his grandmother and was abandoned. :'( Poor guy. :(
wait..OMG. IF HE WAS 6 AT 1995, HE'LL BE 20 YEARS OLD NOW!!!
Woah.
B said:
"I had learned the power of first impressions, as well. I could get a much better sense of a child's prognosis if he had a favorable or at least a neutral first impression of me. So rather than just start asking questions of an unsuspecting and usually frightened and disoriented child, I'd found it was best to give him a chance to meet me first. We'd have a brief humorous or engaging conversation, I'd let him size me up a little, provide a clear, simple explanation of what I wanted to learn from him, and then leave him alone for a while to process that information. I'd assure him that he was in control."

Justin's mother was a 15-year-old girl who left him with her own mother permanently when he was two months old. Justin's grandmother, by all accounts, was a kind-hearted, nurturing woman who adored her grandchild. Unfortunately, she was also morbidly obese and had related health problems that made her very ill. When Justin was about 11 months old, she was hospitalized and died several weeks later.
Goodness. 15 YEARS OLD? My God, FIFTEEN YEARS OLD AND HAD A BABY?! What in the world was she thinking?
SHE HAVEN'T EVEN TOUCHED COLLEGE AND SHE HAD A BABY!?!
Kids, NEVER do this. NEVER.

B also said:
"During her illness, her live-in boyfriend, Arthur, babysat for Justin. Baby Justin's behavior became difficult, surely a result of losing both his mother and his grandmother in such a short time. Arthur, still grieving himself, didn't know what to do with a crying, tantruming young child—and in his late 60s, he wasn't physically or mentally prepared for such a challenge. He called child protective services, seeking a permanent placement for the boy, who after all, was not even a relative. CPS apparently felt the boy was safe and asked if Arthur would keep Justin while they found alternate placement. He agreed. Arthur was a passive man, in general, and patient. He assumed that CPS would get around to finding a new home for Justin. But CPS is a reactive, crisis-focused agency and with no one putting pressure on it to do so, it didn't act."

Okay. This is a long post.
Arthur made a living as a dog breeder and he was ignorant with the needs of children. So, he kept Justin in a dog cage. He made sure he was well-fed and changed but he hardly talked to him. Justin stayed in that cage for FIVE years and his only companions were dogs.
When he was 2 years old, he had brain damage and it was unlikely to improve. :( poor.
He can't walk or talk like 2 year olds. Normal 2 year olds.
I think they said his brain was small or something. D:
Most of the time when Justin was in the hospital, he was neglected. No one cared. I would hate that. :(
After B's PATIENT and UNDERSTANDING movements and stuffs, Justin never threw food or feces..he started to smile :)<<>
LOL.
After weeks of hard work teaching him to stand and walk and talk and do all those normal things,
he was discharged from the hospital and was placed at a foster home.
Yay.
Okay.
end of story.
Hope you guys actually read it.
Oh, and credits to Oprah.com :)

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