I'm 60 now but I read Heinlein's "They" as a kid and it kinda changed my life by injecting the possibility that everything is a simulation.
So I think I learned that 50 years too early
did any anons ever read Danny Dunn books as a child? a kid science detective
I have never in 50yrs met anyone irl who has but i read every one of them by age 10.
This & then Sherlock Holmes made me into the autist I am, knowing that ANYTHING can be figured out
Our Mom used to walk us to the library once a week, just found them there at first, then searched them out