12:29

When I was four years old, I was rejected from the public kindergarten in my town because they said I was too young to attend, but my preschool wouldn't take me for a second year because I could read at a fifth-grade level and I refused to nap, so my parents scrambled to find alternatives, and, (un)fortunately, a private Catholic kindergarten accepted me.  While sorting through the spider-infested boxes of files my father keeps in our basement this morning, I found the application to Saint Mary's Parochial School that my parents filled out in 1993.  Under the category of Favorite Toys, my mother wrote "tape recorder".  Under Socialization Methods, "voluntarily alone most of the time".  Under Effective Methods of Discipline, "forced socialization with her peers".