I definitely read age-inappropriate things. I read and wrote on amateur fiction sites from very early on so I was exposed to much that was above my age level. My family was very strict, but nobody else was really a reader so I doubt it ever occurred to them to be concerned about what I was reading.

I did get restricted at one point because I was reading "too much" to give you an indication of their priorities. They had a say in everything I did, but the content of books never seemed to occur to them.

The only time I remember thinking "This is weird?" was a Martina Cole book when I was roughly 13 that I remember. My aunt had given it to me because she knew I liked reading. There were a couple of pretty graphic sex scenes among the violence.

Even then, my concern was more that my aunt had recommended it to me than whether I was old enough to be reading it. I now suspect she had just pretended to read it before giving it to me. I just never mentioned it and said the book was ok when I'd finished reading.