I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.
I basically was a precocious little kid.
I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.
I was brought up as a normal kid.
When I was paralysed by polio at 13, I went into an isolation hospital and couldn't sit up, so I only took liquid food from spouted cups which the masked nurses would bring in and feed to me. I saw my parents only through glass; we couldn't touch.
In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.
I was probably 11 by the time I saw a movie.
I wasn't a child at 13, were you?
I was the one in charge of the kids growing up.