Poto and Cabengo are a pair of identical twins (real names Grace and Virginia Kennedy, respectively), who used a secret language up to the age of about eight. Poto and Cabengo is also the name of a documentary film about the girls made by Jean-Pierre Gorin and released in 1979.
They were apparently of normal intelligence; they developed their own communication because they had little exposure to spoken language in their early years.
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Poto and Cabengo are a pair of identical twins (real names Grace and Virginia Kennedy, respectively), who used a secret language up to the age of about eight. Poto and Cabengo is also the name of a documentary film about the girls made by Jean-Pierre Gorin and released in 1979.
They were apparently of normal intelligence; they developed their own communication because they had little exposure to spoken language in their early years.
Grace and Virginia were born in 1970 in Columbus, Georgia. Their birth was normal, and they were able to lift their heads and make eye contact with their parents within hours after birth. But both soon suffered apparent seizures, and their father claimed that a surgeon told him the girls might well experience mental retardation. Misunderstanding speculation for diagnosis, the girls' parents ceased to pay more attention to them than necessary.
Both parents were employed (although later characterized by the San Diego Tribune as living on "food stamps and...
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