The trouble with the world is that the stupid people are cocksure and the intelligent peoople are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell
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from an article on low-functioning autism in SciAm:

"Years ago in India, a doctor told his parents that the boy could not understand what was happening around him."-->"'I understand very well,' said the spirit in the boy."

"Wanting to talk, Tito once stood before a mirror pleading for his mouth to move. 'All his image did was stare back,' he wrote." (he often refers to himself in third person)