This could be from any age really. I remember reading lots of books like Harry Potter as a 4th grader to seem smart to the teachers looking at me but I didn’t understand any of it. When the big YA dystopian boom was happening, I read tons of terrible YA dystopias to seem cool but many of them frustrated me.
When I was in high school I forced myself to read nothing but classics. I enjoyed them but I definitely did not “get” them. I thought If I read anything recent or YA I would’ve been seen as “lesser” and ultimately missed out on a lot of fun stories that I can’t enjoy to their fullest now cuz I’m older. It did leave a lot of worlds for me to discover when I got back into reading years later though, so I can’t complain too much.