I&#x27;m not a typical case but...<p>I learned to read before primary school, I was bored out of my mind. The school offered to make me skip a class, my parents declined because they thought being too young would be detrimental to my school experience.<p>Knowing me, that was a mistake. To this day, I regret not being put through an accelerated curriculum, or at least being taken out of school and given a chance to spend that time learning on my own.<p>Overall, despite being bored in primary school, I am still glad I learned before, as it afforded me the opportunity to learn more things by reading on my own, and it protected me from the general poor quality of reading education in school.