kids: i'm different

When I was younger I used to get paranoid about a lot of things, usually fixating on one thing for a while until I found a new thing to be paranoid about. I remember going through a phase where I thought that everyone in the world was an alien except for me, and that they all had a human form.

These aliens didn't like being in their human form, so would revert to their alien form as soon as I was out of sight, but were always in their human form around me to keep their secret. After passing someone going round a corner I would backtrack to try and catch them reverting to their alien form, but they were always too quick for me, turning back into their human form JUST before I could catch them... that went on for a while, I was a very imaginative child!

When I was around 6 or 7 I was playing with my older brother's plastic hook (the kind used for halloween costumes) and declared I was a hooker. My father and brother both chimed in that I was, indeed, not a hooker. The best part is that I have it taped on a casette tape, and still have it to this very day.

i used to believe that i was really an alien and that my parents had found me in a mushroom patch wen i was born...as a matter a fact i still believe the alien part...but i hate mushroom so i dont kno how well that worked out.. i also used to believe that i could fly as long as i had my kermit the frog doll in hand..

I used to think I was a bird. I thought this because every time my mom bought the squiggly kind of pasta, I pretended they were worms and I was eating them. So one day my mom made me the squiggly pasta for a snack and I went inot my sister's room and said "I'm eating worms!!" and she said "Only birds eat worms". I TOTALLY believed her and proceeded to put on my angel wings from last year's halloween costume and make a nest for myself in the corner of the couch.

i used to believe that monsters were monitoring my every move, and would come and get me if i stepped on the beige squares on the carpet

five years later, i still only ever step on the brown squares

My grandmother is a strong catholic and I was convinced I was going to be the "next" vigin mary. I thought I was pregnant all the time and would sit and cry. No one knew why. Until today! Haha!

i used to bileive i would never die. When i was a little girl, i thought life was this really great thing created for me, and everything happened to amuse or to make me sad.. i thought i wouldnt die like everybody else! Its a pretty strange and self-centered belief!

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.

When I was...oh, I don't know, maybe seven or eight, I looked in a mirror and saw that my back curved forward at the base, so my upper body was a bit farther forward than my lower body. I was convinced that I was turning into a centaur, and was very excited until I told my mother and she explained that I just didn't stand straight. I also thought that shoulderblades were actually wings starting to grow (I think I read this in a book and thought it made sense) and wondered if the reason they never became wings was because it was happening slowly, through evolution.

Up to the age of about 9 I used to think that I was still a baby and my life was all a dream and everytime I hurt myself it's just because I had hit myself on the bars of my cot or something and then I would wake up and live the exact same life but know what to do because I would have lived it already and I wouldn't get into as much trouble with people and they wouldn't do things to me that they have done. Now I know this isn't correct and I shall have to live my life the hard way, without knowing whats coming next!

I used to believe that the whole world was a virtual reality experiment where I was the only real person. I wondered if the room and the people in it existed in any sense if I left the room. Sometimes I wondered the lenghts somebody went to design things to make me think it was all real.

For that matter I still wonder if the world would exist in real sense when I am gone. When I don't percieve it does it make sense for me to think it still exists? Feel very scared and alone when I think I am stuck inside me for so many years and I am able to see the world only from this angle. Anybody else feel like this?

i used to belive that all of my family was not realy my family and that i was either adopted or they was realy alians i never told any one this

When I was younger, I thought that I am a robot and every other people are examing me on everything. They are hiding many things from me, but they don't know that I know, so be carefull with me, you never know when I'll use my laser :)

I have no idea why but, when I was around 4years old I thought I was a bear in some kind of costume. I told this to my brother and it took me 5 minutes to tell him because I was laughing so hard

My mother constantly told me I wasn't her child. She said there was a mix-up in the hospital and I had been switched with someone else. Many of my aunts and uncles called me a changeling because I was so different from my brothers, so it was easy to believe I didn't belong. I spent many nights wishing my real parents would find me and take me home even though I knew it was impossible. You see, the reason I was switched was because they didn't want a baby like me and they stole the "real" Theresa and my mom was stuck with me. And I knew it was true, my mom told me about it.

When I was about 6 I used to walk up and down in front of our reflective school hall windows pretending to be a reindeer. i thought that if i tried hard enough i could turn into one. i even used tot hink i could see my nose turning red and my body changing shape.