special powers

I used to think that if I ate grass, I could fly. I'm sure I decided this after watching birds. I ate alot of grass but not enough apparently.

Ash

When I was a little girl, I always wanted to do everything my big brothers did but they didn't want a baby sister tagging along. My grandmother told me that if I could kiss my elbow I would become a boy just like them. I tried for YEARS to reach that elbow with my lips pursed just right ... only to learn later that it was physically impossible and just a little something grandmother invented to ease my hurt and, by then, boys liked me for being a girl. ; -) Thanks, gran!

Kat

Oh gods, where to start?

Weeelll, when I was small I thought that by singing, I could make the wind blow. Oddly enough, the wind DID have a tendency to pick up when I sang. o_O

Also, I used to believe I controlled streetlights in the evening because we had a tendency to go out just as they flicked on, so we would go down the road and I would watch the lights go on one by one as we went by.

I also thought I controlled stop lights, and could make them be green. (I believed I had no control over making them yellow or red, but could make them green. Another girl younger then me *in my mind* ran the yellow, and a little boy controlled the red)

Wow. I was a strange little child.

Zyo

I used to believe that I could hover down stairs. I still have very vivid memories of being able to do it. Unfortunatly, I lost the power at the age of 6 after falling down them and hitting my head.....

Superman

when i was younger i thought if you couldn't see a person they couldn't see you. so i'd just close my eyes thinking they couldn't see me.

Anon

I believed when I was little that I had the power to tell if somthing was a diamond or not just by looking at it as it went into facits. My mum says I just use dto go boz eyed and even said that a glass ash tray was made from diamond...very dissapointed when I was corrected

charlene

There is a scene in Snow White and the Seven Dwarves in which Snow White whipes off a foggy, dirty window so as to be able to see inside of it. I always thought that when she whiped it off, she was whiping a hole *through* it and if I were to do the same, I'd be able to stick my arm through the hole or something. I spent many afternoons fogging up windows with my breath and whiping them off, disappointed that nothing was happening.

Melissa

I used to think that in a hurricane, you could jump out of our 2 story bedroom window and be able to fly like superman. Thank god there wasn't a hurricane by the time i fugure out I was wrong.

Kaitlin

I used to believe that I could fly. No reason behind it, I just really thought I could and that I had to keep it a complete secret.

Paola

When i was around 8 or 9 i had been to the clinic and i had an eye test.
My eyes weren't too good but i didn't need glasses and i had been told i had rugby shaped eyes which is uncommon.
Everyone i knew had round eyes.

So for about a year i went round pretending i had special eyes and when ever a car went past i would look inside the car window and kinda open my eyes really wide and see there future (Like Neji out of Naruto the anime.. if u have seen it.) and the drivers would just give me a weird look.

Then one day my brother tried doing it but i told him u cant do it because u have round eyes so then he faked to my mum that he needed an eye test.
So off we go to the clinic again and guess what... there was nothing wrong with his eyes but he had rugby shaped eyes.
I was so jealouse so i thought whats the point in having a special power if someone who u see everyday has the same one.

So as i got older as now im 16 i thought wow them drivers must of thought i was weird haha.

I wish i had powers

when i was little i thought i was an alien, because i thought i was the only person that had saliva to keep swallowing. i knew my throat moved when i swallowed, but when i observed others, i didn't see their troats move!

whitt

I thought I could fly. No - really.

Edena

wen i was small i used to believe that if i swam long ehoufh i will grow a tail and turn into a mermaid...i tried really hard , especially after seeing th cartoon film "the little mermaid"

Anon

I used to think that if I tried hard enough, I could actually jump off the ground and fly like ten feet as if I were a person walking on the moon, and 'till this day I still have a major fascination with defying gravity.

Marybeth

I used to believe that everything in the world had a thin black outline, like in a coloring book. I swore up and down that I could look at things and see their black line

JW

My brother and I used to believe that we could move objects with our minds, but only light objects.
One time we were at my dad's house (my parents divorced when I was 7 or 8) and we had a balloon, so we sat it on the bed and took turns "levitating" it. One of us would stand on the bed, with the balloon in the middle of us (no helium), put both our hands on the sides of our heads, and close our eyes really tight, while the other one would sit on the other side of the bed and watch it float. It moved because we had the fan on, but we still believed we had done it.

Renae

when i was younger, my mum bought a new carpet,and it was rolled up and propped up on the stairs. I accidentaly dropped a bottle of shampoo down there, and my mum told me if i wished really hard, i would shrink enoungh to crawl down and fetch.I was stood at the top of the stairs for about half an hour with my eyes closed tring to shrink. hehe

Anon

when i was little i saw a episode of "Whos afraid of the Dark" and the kids got trained to lift things with there minds if they stared at it for a long time and concentrated on lifting it. I was in my room staring at my ball and my mom came in and asked me what i was doing. When i told her she thought i was insane.

Amber

When I was a kid, I used to think that I was the only one able to hear the high-pitched electronic buzz that televisions and other machines make. I thought I had a superpower. I was so disappointed when I found out other people can hear that sound, too.

Anon

I used to think that some how I could control the weather depending on my emotions, and some times, when I was really upset that the wind would try to comfort me...at least it was fun!

Silence