As Ben Carson slowly moves more into the spotlight, a bit more information is being highlighted. Personally, I get the sense that Carson is living in a partial fantasy world, that his strange closed eyes and slow speech are signs of metal aberration and not "thoughtfulness" (his thoughts, when he finally gets them out, are a jumble of shallow far right theories mixed with murky religiosity). And his story of having a violent temper as a teenager, attempting to stab his best friend but luckily breaking the knife on his buddy's belt buckle, then going into a fortress of solitude like state, emerging as Buddha... I suspect that is 98% boolshit.

Ben Carson

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller