precociousness

I fink it is a femuw. A femuw of a winowcowus... A a-stinct winocowus.

Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been coddled a good deal (also scolded). I was awkward, precocious, timid, full of my private rituals and aversions.