The Visits
The triplets and the other babies in the study were observed from infancy to puberty; they were visited by researchers several times a year at first, but the frequency diminished as they grew up. David’s adoptive mother, Claire, remembered the first researcher giving David “square pegs to put into round holes to see his reaction.”
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Claire recalled, “[Researchers] took films of him talking, playing. Later on, they would take him on his tricycle, bicycle. When he was very little, she came with some toys. She would give him a truck, a toy soldier, a doll, and a cradle.” Dr. Morton Shafran, Bobby’s adoptive father said, “Several times a year they would come, test him, photograph him. This went on for many years.”
But the boys made lemonade from the lemons they were given, so to speak…