This brings us to the question of how Hoskins, an undiagnosed, black autistic savant living in the egregiously racist Deep South of 1920, managed to get by. Byrd tells us that Hoskins was cared for by a white family named the Gambles, ?who furnish him with food and clothes and a place to sleep, in return for which he delivers papers, gets in coal, feeds the pigs on the farm, and does little odds and ends about the place ? he trusts the Gambles implicitly.? Hoskins was especially close to Mr. Gamble. Being known about town by several names?Eugene, Gene, James, and Jim?he loathed being called the latter; this entitlement was reserved for Mr. Gamble alone. When someone else once shouted over to ?Jim? for a pail of water to help put out a burning house up the road, ?he balked and refused to move.? When Byrd asked him why he did this, Hoskins replied, ?Da wasn?t talkin? to me?I ain?t Jim.?
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