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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DH was adopted. early 70s. His older sister, also adopted and then a younger brother - unexpected birth child. So the adoptive mother who was mentally average couldn't cope with or fathom a highly intellectual child and ultimately failed him. He talks to her, sends her birthday / Mother's Day gifts.[/quote]

What do you mean she ultimately failed him?[/quote]

She failed him on a lot of levels. When he was a newborn she shut him in a room alone because the 2 yr old she'd adopted used to "dance on his head" and later she'd find he ate his own diaper. The only other instances of this happening I've read about have been neglectful, heroin addict parents.

She also wasn't capable of releasing his intellect. She also was someone who suffered from such high anxiety that she raised three, biologically unrelated kids to suffer extreme anxiety well into their middle age.

Is that enough for you?[/quote]

It doesn't sound like the high intellect was the precipitating factor in the failure but that the adoptive mom suffered extreme anxiety and lacked parental instincts. [/quote]

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