Talk:June and Jennifer Gibbons/Archive 1

Archive 1

Photo and email

I need a copyright-free photo of the girls. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bluejay Young (talk • contribs) 18:17, 20 January 2005 (UTC)

I'd want june's e-mail — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.56.114.68 (talk) 22:08, 13 December 2005‎ (UTC)

Email would have been perfect for those girls. The last thing I have on June says she has a word processor only. In that economically depressed area, she'd probably have to access the internet through a public access terminal. --Bluejay Young 06:56, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Race

Their dad was a West Indian immigrant to Barbados but they were of African ancestry? Were they Indian Africans or is that a mistake there? -Denihilonihil 09:57, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

They were West Indians. If it says Africans that's a mistake. Many black West Indians have some Yoruba ancestry and this is mentioned in the book about the girls. I will fix it, thank you. Bluejay Young 08:34, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

West Indian means coming from the West Indies - not necessarily from the Indian subcontinent.Totorotroll (talk) 16:12, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Jennifer - alive or dead

at the startit says she lived 1963-1993 but later on refers to where she was living in 2005. which is correct — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.26.179.21 (talk) 16:09, 11 July 2006‎ (UTC)

June's alive. Jennifer died in '93. Read the whole article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bluejay Young (talk • contribs) 01:52, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Marjorie Wallace

Presumably "author Marjorie Wallace" is not the "Marjorie Wallace" that the link leads to. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.187.211.35 (talk) 17:12, 20 December 2006‎ (UTC)

Living nearby

I recall living next door but one to the Gibbons family 1964 -1969 in linton on ouse in york. my sister and i used to play with the twins, my brother played with their brother David,and if i remember correctley there was an older sister and younger sister

julie stocken —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.107.164.127 (talk) 18:36, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Untitled

Jesus Christ this is bad writing. Someone please make it not sound like a 7th grader's essay — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.18.85.22 (talk) 03:51, 13 April 2010‎ (UTC)

Media

Should it be announced in this section they were mentioned in a Good Mythical Morning episode (Rhett and Link)?

TINja 00:20 — Preceding unsigned comment added by MakeMeDo (talk • contribs) 19:42, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

Tautology?

What is up with this sentence?

"They began writing works of fiction but turned to crime when they started experiencing criminality tendencies." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ganondox (talk • contribs) 18:51, 24 August 2017 (UTC)

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Hospitalization

Were they never diagnosed with Folie à deux syndrome? I see a reference to Ursala and Sabina Eriksson and they "The Silent Twins" seem like a classic case.--2601:205:4100:32E:693E:3C89:5CF0:3951 (talk) 23:05, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

I've seen them mentioned before as a folie à deux case, but I've never seen anything stating they'd actually been diagnosed. Generally, especially with living people, my understanding is that Wiki tends away from armchair psych and only mentions a specific mental illness if a credible source confirms diagnosis, but I could be wrong. And honestly I don't know that I'd even consider them a folie à deux case. It seems like they weren't actually experiencing psychosis in the beginning, and were only send to Broadmoor as a result of their refusal to communicate with others--which isn't delusional or psychotic. They were then placed on anti-psychotics with a whole list of significant side effects. And given that they were in Broadmoor for eleven years with no indication that they'd be released until they started talking to others, I'm not sure the belief that one of them would have to die in order for the other to be discharged is necessarily a delusion. It certainly seems illogical to us on the outside, but selective mutism, which June states they had, is a psychological condition, not a choice, and one born most often out of trauma. If that trauma was being incarcerated in a mental institution and forced to take anti-psychotics, and they understood that the only way to be released is for them to start talking... Looking from their point of view, it may not be objectively a correct train of thought but I don't know if it rises to the definition of delusional. Either way, I've not seen a diagnosis for it anywhere. If you find one from a reputable source it's definitely fair to add it, though, especially given how are the disorder appears to be. JackMeraxes (talk) 17:46, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Place of birth

The infoboxes say Barbados but the text says Aden. -- Beardo (talk) 21:46, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

I've just updated the infoboxes to Aden as well because that's where the twins were born, not Barbados. Source: The Silent Twins by Marjorie Wallace.84.68.78.101 (talk) 19:10, 30 November 2020 (UTC)