User blog comment:Forestpaw13/Ugh/@comment-1897744-20100304000932

>>"I hate how 97% of interesting websites are prejudiced against pre-teens like that >:(. "

It's not their fault, for the record. (Though you probably know that.) COPPA requires that you be thirteen or older to register on sites/etc. It's there for legal reasons, because otherwise the site would be in a bunch of deep water for not obeying COPPA. Since they're, like, law of the internet.

tl;dr: Put in a fake birth year.

(On that topic, though: thirteen birthday > sixteenth birthday, IMO. Sixteenth had a surprise party, but I hate driving. Thirteenth = I can stop putting my birth year in as "1979" and start putting it in as the true 94. XD)