Character: Bill Edmonds

- ... in children shizoidalnoe behavior is absolutely normal. It is acceptable, because we adults are all unspoken agreement that children are lunatics. They have invisible friends. Annoyed, the child can go and sit in the closet, withdrawing from the world. They consider talismanic importance to a special blanket or Teddy bear, or a stuffed tiger. Suck the thumb. When an adult sees what is not actually, we consider him ready for the rubber room. When a child says he's seen a Troll in his bedroom or a vampire outside the window, we simply smile indulgently. We have a one-sentence explanation that explains the whole range of such phenomena in children...
- He'll grow out of it.