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Donald Triplett, First Person Diagnosed With Autism, Dies at 89

RIP

“He was in his own world, but if you gave him two, three-digit numbers, he could multiply them faster than you could get the answer on a calculator,” CEO Allen Breland said.

Kelly Weill
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