Recent Commentary
Professor Uta Frith has stated she believes Victor displayed the signs of autism.
In March 2008, following the disclosure that Misha Defonseca's best-selling book, later turned into film, Survivre Avec les Loups (Survival with Wolves) was a fake, there was a debate in the French media (newspapers, radio and television) concerning the numerous false cases of feral children blindly accredited: although there are numerous books on this subject, almost none of them have been based on archives, the authors using rather dubious second or third-hand, printed information. According to French surgeon Serge Aroles, who has written a general study of feral children based on archives, almost all of these cases are fakes. According to Aroles, Victor of Aveyron is not a genuine feral child: "Don't forget that Truffaut's movie is... a movie!" According to Aroles, the scars on the body of Victor were not the consequences of a wild life in the forests, but rather of physical abuse (a fact the film alludes to with at least one scar).
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