I used to beleive that I could talk to animals, but I didn't know it, and that I wasn't supposed to know that I could. I even managed to convince my friends that I was best friends with a Candian Goose named Smokey. Whenever I spotted a Canadian Goose in the schoolyard, I would grin and look all proud and say "There's my Smokey!"
I also had them convinced that there was a raccoon that liked to hang around the school, waiting for school to be over so it could follow me home. I told them that he was a mischevious little thing, and liked to cause trouble, but he was too fast for us to catch him in the act. We often found ourselves blaming little things that went wrong on him.
Yes, I was a strange kid.
A childhood belief about special powers
others believed things like this
- My friend managed to convince a gulliable kid at various stages of school that he was superman and a robot.— naff
- I used to beleive that you could catch yourself sleeping if you woke up fast enough.— Amber
- One of my friends in elementary school thought that Osama bin Laden was "a son of Aladdin". Anon
- when i was growing up i had two imaginary friends. One was named Jennifer, the other was named Onion.— Tessica
- I used to beleive when ppl didn't talk (deaf ppl) they lost their voice and could never talk again!— Tiara 10
- I used to believe that you could catch AIDS from just looking at a nud girl. Good thing I was WRONG— Mbm4615