“I don’t have many friends, because of who I am,” Brown reveals. “I didn’t go to school, so I don’t have the best social skills when it comes to people my own age and friendships. I struggle with that quite a bit. I missed out on a few things. But I’m working through them.”

“I don’t have many friends, because of who I am,” she said, recalling that she and her similarly young Stranger Things co-stars completed their education through private classes on set. “I didn’t go to school, so I don’t have the best social skills when it comes to people my own age and friendships.”