Aileen Wuornos Alloplastic Adaptation

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Aileen Wuornos was born on February 29, 1956 in Rochester, Michigan; at a young age she and her brother, Keith, were raised by their grandparents, after her parents divorced just months before Aileen was born. Her father, a career criminal, was later convicted of kidnapping and raping a seven year old girl and eventually hung himself in his prison cell. Wuornos grandparents drank heavily and parented with strict authority. Wuornos would later say that she was sexually abused by her grandfather and had sexual relations with her brother. She became pregnant at the age of 14, and the baby was given up for adoption, and was forced out of her home and lived in the woods. She was arrested during the mid 1970s for charges related to assault and disorderly …show more content…

I think that she is both alloplastic adaptation and autoplastic adaptation. First, alloplastic because she committed crime to change her environment as she was living in the woods and streets she may have encounter many crimes and she just did the same. Secondly, I think she also experienced autoplastic adaption because as she committed a crime it was stressful and to deal with it she committed another crime after another. Also, I believe that a well being person would not committed crime to feel better unless they were mentally ill as I believe she was. I think that sociopath and neuroticism for personality trait should be applied to this case. Sociopath is defined as cruel and without thought or feelings for victims. The characteristics are poverty or inability to imagine how others feel and think. All this is Wourons live because when she was thrown out her grandparents home she did not had any money and she killed and perhaps the victims were not trying to hurt her but the inability to think as a well being human could not permitted her. Neuroticism is of typical people who are irrational, shy, moody, and emotional which Wourons did in her life and during her trial. As a child she did not have friends and had sexual relations with her brother which I find that irrational and perhaps that is why

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