In my experience early reading doesn't make people "get" your child. Really precocious reading is sometimes totally ignored because people simply have no frame of reference and don't even process that the kid is actually reading. And, of course there is also the option that people will suggest the child is hyperlexic, autistic, or some kind of savant.
... or that you as a parent must have a lot of unresolved issues. Enmeshment, much?
I'm kidding of course. Well, kind of. People
do say those kinds of things.
I've been accused of "stealing" my daughter's childhood by accepting radical acceleration for her, for example. <sigh>
