Mexico City – Dafne loves to go to the movies with her friends, to make fruit pastries and take piano lessons, but her focus now is on the master's degree this exceptionally gifted youngster plans to pursue after earning her bachelor's in psychology at the age of 13.

Dafne Almazan Anaya received her diploma last Thursday, snatching the title of world's youngest psychology graduate away from 16-year-old brother Andrew.

"I am a normal girl, I have friends outside school, they come to my home and we do things, but also I have friends at the school," Dafne said in an interview with EFE. "We go to the movies, to the shopping mall and they treat me fine, just like a normal girl."

Dafne said she always tells her friends "that every person has some kind of gift and, if they have not found it yet, the day will come when they will find it."

The youngest of three siblings, after Delany and Andrew, who graduated from college at 17 and 16, respectively, Dafne has resumed her piano lessons, holds a yellow belt in Taekwondo, and is improving her English as she learns Chinese and French.

Her father, surgeon Asdrubal Almazan, says Dafne never attended a conventional school. "We detected at 2½ that she taught herself to read and write and then we started a program of intellectual improvement that her brother Andrew had developed," Almazan recounted. Andrew, now 20, is director of scientific research at the Talent Attention Center, or Cedat.

Almazan and wife Dunia Anaya founded Cedat when they realized that Andrew, who had been wrongly diagnosed with attention deficit disorder, was not getting what he needed from traditional education.

Dafne responded well to the system created by her father and brother.

"This is one of the first cases in the world with positive results," Almazan said. "Other countries have tried to have children graduating at university level, but they failed."

"We pay attention to provide Dafne 100 percent in the emotional area with children of her age, and she was not inserted directly into a university to coexist with adults," he said.