Livre d'Or

I was reading a fair bit ahead of my age expectations as well - I probably only reached books aimed at teenagers when I was more like 7 than 5, but still. My school's response was in part to suggest that I be moved up a year, and my parents thought about it for a while and decided not to because of the likely social difficulties. In hindsight I think they were completely right about that for me since my social development was probably a fair bit below average for a lot of my childhood. OTOH I sometimes wonder how things would have been different if I'd had to put more effort into even my strong subjects earlier on rather than hitting my coasting-on-talent peak around the start of the third year of university ...

For me I guess it meant being able to learn some things in a partially or primarily self-taught way from very early on, which is just as well for the career I ended up choosing, though in the wider scheme of things it's a problem that excelling in that career is a lot easier for the self-taught since it skews things towards those with privileges that confer free time.