beyond one's years

I know now after raising a very bright and sensitive son myself, no parents could have handled me better than my own. I was intelligent beyond my years, but emotionally, ...

1998, William Dales Hartt, Final Legacies, Nova Publishers, →ISBN, page 39

I am beyond my years, but I cannot keep count, as my Abacus runs to computer grail.

2003, OBanya, Sickles Raised from Dust: And Other Poems

Dear Diary, In some ways I am beyond my years. I mean how many eighteen year olds feel ready to settle down and marry this day and age? Most people my age are going away to college, partying on the weekends, and still trying to figure ...

2012, Jillian Amodio, Diaries of a Teenage Bride, AuthorHouse, →ISBN

She told me a story of how the doctor who delivered me told her that I was special ...and I was smart beyond my years. He told her my reflexes were not only on target but better than other babies. I loved this story. For an instant I felt special.

2015, Cheryl Forrester, Carl Sutton, Selective Mutism In Our Own Words: Experiences in Childhood and Adulthood, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 68

Of herself, she has said, “Most people who get to know me would say that I am beyond my years, and I do feel that way. All that I have experienced has aged me mentally.” In the opinion of this professor, that translates to: wiser than her years.

2016, Don Stannard-Friel, Street Teaching in the Tenderloin: Jumpin’ Down the Rabbit Hole, Springer, →ISBN, page 359