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Me: I am sure the headline is clickbait and the story is not that weird.
* reads story *
Me: W...T...F?????
i uh... huh.
We have no idea about the conditions he lived in, but i think 26 years is easily enough time to turn a humans brain into complete goo. You can make a human believe anything with that sort of timeframe.
Thats basically what the most extreme forms of military training do aswell. You take a human that has empathy and a fear of death and you just completely eliminate those things from that persons entire existence.
Fucking sad. Like fuck
still, i'm shocked to read that his survival instincts wouldn't overcome his conditioning. that doesn't happen by accident, his captor knew what he was doing.
He was only 19 when he was stolen and may not have had a science based education.
Reminds me a bit of the Jaycee Duggard case, she ended up interacting with lots of people without telling them that she was being held by a kidnapper.
Bad translation/cultural interpretation? Maybe they meant something along the lines of "if I spoke he would have hurt my family" which is a verbal phrase that holds power over him, sort of like a spell.
No translation issue there. Northern Africa is quite known for witchcraft. People here might have trouble coming to terms with this, but it is what it is.