I desperately wish I had been grade skipped! I was in a rapid acceleration program in what was my normal K year. Then my parents were forced to move states for employment. I landed in 1st grade in a regular public school with no GT program. The teacher sent me to the hall to read my chapter books because it hurt the other kids' feelings. You can predict how it went from there. My parents didn't know enough at the time to demand more from the school and just did what was available.
By my freshman year of high school I only hung out with older kids, had managed how to get exactly a 92% in all my classes so I looked smart but not that smart. I also became obsessed with dance and spent 3 hours a day in dance classes. I was pretty miserable until college, when I had to learn immediately that you have to actually open the books sometimes to pass the tests.
