A childhood belief about i'm different

Growing up, my dad would watch the news a lot. I then realized, of course, that I was thinking all wrong and that someone had to sit there in my mind and tell me what was going on in my head, just like in the news. I also had a stock ticker, but it wasn't stocks, it was just random numbers. This, however, became very tiring and I decided not to pretend my thoughts were news reports.