“Nobody knows. I work on a hemp farm in Colorado, and I haven’t...

“Nobody knows.  I work on a hemp farm in Colorado, and I haven’t told anyone.  I probably wouldn’t even have gotten the job if people knew.  I used to lie about it, but that didn’t feel good.  So I just stopped telling people.  Whenever someone asks my age, I’ll just say: ‘I don’t tell people that.’  When people know you’re a ‘kid,’ they look down on you.  And I hate it.  Because really, it’s nothing.  Age is nothing.  All it means is that I was born seventeen years ago.  But whenever someone learns my age, they immediately think of themselves at seventeen.  And that’s how they see me.  They assume that I haven’t experienced what they didn’t experience.  And that I don’t know what they didn’t know.  So I just don’t tell anyone.  I don’t give people that frame of reference.”