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Not a case of a feral child but...

https://gulfnews.com/world/offbeat/rescued-8-year-old-thai-boy-raised-among-dogs-only-communicates-by-barking-1.500185511

An eight-year-old boy from Thailand’s Laplae
district has been rescued from a drug-ridden home
where he was raised in near-total isolation and
learned to communicate only by barking.

Authorities found the boy living in squalor,
surrounded by six dogs, after a school principal
and local activists raised the alarm, according
to a report in Thaiger.

The child, referred to as “Boy A” for legal
reasons, had not attended school for over two
years. His mother, a drug addict, reportedly left
him alone for hours each day in a dilapidated
wooden house while she roamed the neighbourhood
begging for food.

With no friends, no adult supervision, and only
the dogs for company, the boy began mimicking
their behaviour — communicating by barking
instead of speaking.

“He didn’t speak, he just barked,” said Pawina
Hongsakul, head of the Pawina Hongsakul Foundation
for Children and Women, which led the rescue
operation on June 30.
...
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Ar an ceathrú lá de mí Iúil, scríobh Tilde:

Not a case of a feral child but...

https://gulfnews.com/world/offbeat/rescued-8-year-old-thai-boy-raised-among-dogs-only-communicates-by-barking-1.500185511

An eight-year-old boy from Thailand’s Laplae district has been rescued from
a drug-ridden home where he was raised in near-total isolation and learned to communicate only by barking.

Authorities found the boy living in squalor, surrounded by six dogs, after a school principal and local activists raised the alarm, according to a report in Thaiger.

The child, referred to as “Boy A” for legal reasons, had not attended school
for over two years.

I wonder did he attend school at any point? I would expect him to have some (human) language ability if he did. He may be choosing not to use what language he has for very understandable psychological reasons.
--
‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /
How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
(C. Moore)
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