The case of the "Silent Twins" or silent twins is remembered even today by the world of science , psychology and also, by the quiet and small town of Haverfordwest, in Wales.
In those 60 years they had never seen a black person, so they welcomed that well-placed family with two beautiful twins.The girls, to everyone's surprise, turned out to be creatures so unique and strange that even today, they are still remembered without actually understanding what really happened to them.
June and Jennifer Gibbons "were connected." Their bond was so strong that they arrived to invent their own language to isolate themselves from the world, creating for them a “something dark and violent“ scenario.However, this is just a small brushstroke of what their life was, and what books like “Silent Twins »From journalist Marjorie Wallace came to pick up.
We explain it to you.
The strange case of the “Silent Twins”….Inexplicable!
« Once we were two/We were both one/We weren't two more/One through life/Rest in peace.”
This is the poem June wrote when his sister Jennifer passed away, at which point As she herself declared, she felt free.Now, everything that both lived, created and showed the world and especially the people of Haverfordwest, was certainly amazing and instants, even terrifying.
Both were born in 1963 in the Barbados Islands .Their father was of the British Royal Air Force, they led a comfortable life where nothing could foresee that the change of destination from Barbados to Wales was not a success However, it was not so much, because in this area of the United Kingdom they had not seen Before, no person of color, and being such a small community, girls were always a focus of attention, and not because of rejection, but out of curiosity.
However, June and Jennifer they always felt different. Perhaps because of this, they developed a type of language from a very early age to avoid having to relate to the rest of children or adults: they had enough with that bond of sisters.the rest of the community, it didn't take long to call them the "Silent Twins."
What was most impressive was that they were not only able to create their own language by being so small, but also "moving the same way." ». They did the same things at the same time and with the same movements , something that for many people was very scary, since even being separated, their gestures, steps and acts were" mimetic and exact ": scratching, putting on your socks, looking, lowering your head...
Already in school The professors and psychologists were fascinated with them.The therapist came to describe how, if one of them fell to the ground, the other did the same thing without being in the same place.They were connected in every way and that, interested in science, frightened the neighbors and also the rest of the children, which did not take long to start a whole campaign of bullying.
In a situation as strange as dangerous for girls, Therapists recommended that parents “separate them.” Send them to each of them to a school so that they could integrate into other environments and mature separately, breaking that strange bond that was isolating them from the world.Guess what happened? When they tried, when they were separated for the first time, they entered a catatonic state. It was impossible to separate them, to such an extent that on occasion they tried to take their own lives.
In view of that they could not do it, the parents thought it would not be wrong to point them to a creative writing course so that they could express what they had inside, so that they would reflect their emotions and thoughts in words.What happened then was even more frightening. With 14 years, the family, teachers and psychologists, were aware of the complex inner world of those girls .Their stories talked about sex, blood and a very extreme violence.So much so, that some experts who have come to read those stories and short novels , comment that even Tarantino himself would be amazed.
The next step on this scale of youth maturity opened the curtains to the field of crime.Maybe it was inevitable, perhaps, even though the family and Professors were intuiting it, they could not arrive in time to avoid robberies, aggressions and fires.They burned houses, bars...When they reached 18, they were admitted to a high-security psychiatric hospital.
It was in these facilities, being next to rapists, of people with dementias and schizophrenias when they themselves gave They realized something: When they were together, their violent side woke up in them, their darkness .When they were separated, the world stopped and, without knowing why, they entered into a catatonic state.the help of other health professionals became fully aware of that strange bond that forces them to be in a way that deep down, neither wanted.
The case became so noticeable that finally , multiple journalists came to pick up his story, like Marjorie Wallace, who wrote the book that we have referred to at the beginning "Silent Twins." It was to her that one of the twins revealed something shocking: " I know I have to die , because it's the only option for us to both be free, and it's going to be me."It was Jennifer Gibbons.
And so it was. Jennifer died with 30 years just when they were both transferred to another prison .Worse it was not suicide, there was no aggression or any kind of rape cia.It was natural death: acute myocarditis.Seconds before, he said the following words to his sister: "we are finally out".
This case continues to call the everyone's attention.If you wonder what it was after June Gibbons, we will tell you that he finally left the psychiatric hospital.He lives with his family in Wales today, has a normal life and does not need any kind of psychological help. It's free.
A curious fact that we wanted to share with you and where, as always, we want to know your opinion.We also suggest if you wish, remember our article with 10 curiosities about twins.
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