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Alternate history where humans have developed psychic powers. A baby is born whose power is that people "forget" about him. Robot nurses feed and change him etc. His parents constantly forget he exists. As an adult, he works for the government and they send him to infiltrate various enemy installations. He is incredibly lonely.
It's a short story. It's written in english. I probably read this in the 1980's.
It sound very similar to a Piers Anthony story called Mute.
The protagonist, Knot, is a double mutant: he has a physical deformity, and the psi power to make others forget him. He's satisfied with his life--until the lovely Finesse walks into his life to recruit him for a dangerous galactic mission. She is aided by two small animal mutants: a telepathic weasel and a clairvoyant crab.
