i'm different

There's always lots of films on TV about children who are adopted but that only come to know the truth about their parents when they're 10-12 years old. So, because of such films, I actually spent my younger years fearing that I might be adopted - and what a shame that would be, because I really liked my "parents"!
I thought that, until I reached the age of 10, I could never be sure that they were my real parents, because they would always lie to me about it. They would think I was too young to understand the situation and that I could be traumatised, and so they wouldn't tell me the truth no matter how hard I asked!

Apparently, I wasn't adopted after all...

rcguim

When i was in grade 7, as a joke i wanted to see if i could convince one of my friends that i was a Wear Wolf. (i dont know the propor spelling for it, but u get the picture) Anyways, i had her convinced after i told her that when i saw the colour red, it would anger me, and that when i was in my wolf state on full moon nights, i would attack anything that was red... i actually started to believe it too when i heard from a friend's parent, that a red car had hit a wolf that ran away on a full moon night... and i had terrible muscle pains the next day.. lol, so then i stopped talking about it, and my friend and i, never spoke of it again... lol

Britney

when i was younger, I used to believe that what i saw was different from what everyone else saw, like that i saw humans but someone else saw aliens or clowns or something. i also used to think that people heard thing in their own languages too so if i said hi to the kid who saw aliens he would hear something in the alien language... I was a special kid

Amychan

I used to believe, literally, that the earth revolved around me. I thought that people started moving and talking and being as soon as they saw me, and then when I was gone, they would freeze in place until I cam back.

Sharon

I used to believe that I was adopted, and my real family was royalty, I of course was a princess. They were just waiting till I turned 18 to come and take me away.

MMAS

i used to believe i am the smartest girl in the world.i can give the reason to anything in the world,no matter the reason is right or wrong.

piaopiao

I used to believe that when I was 6 that the way I perceived the world through my eyes would be unique. That the colors the shapes and the dimensions of things I saw were different for everyone. I remember telling my dad this and we were in the bathroom and he said, "do you see yourself in the mirror and me in the mirror and do the images look different then what you see here in this room?" Which I had to acknowledged it was the same, but maybe it was just reflections of things I saw differently, etc? Some days I'm *still* not sure! Which is probably why most of my friends think I'm insane anyways.

Mind Bender

I used to believe i'm the most important person in the world,without me the world will not exist.

piaopiao

i always thought that my whole life was a movie and everyone else was in on it except me, i was convinced everyone else had a script to follow and i was the only one who wasn't in on it. long before this concept ever hit hollywood

snbdr64

When I was about 8 years old, I convinced myself I was secretly the adopted child. The reason? My brother and sister both had names that began with the letter D. Mine began with the letter A.

aithne

I was a smart little kid but somehow didn't quite understand how many people were in the world and also had lived before me, so I thought most of my thoughts and ideas were completely original and I thought myself to be quite clever.

Holly Hilton

When I was young, I thought that I was something other than human. I was never quite sure what, but I was sure I could not be a human being. I thought that I would eventually find out if I tried hard enough, and that everybody around me were part of a conspiracy to keep me from finding out who and what I really was.

Chris

When I was 5 or so and asked my mom where I had come from, she said something to the effect that I came from high above (meaning heaven). Well, in our house, the living room is an addition that's two stories high, with a ceiling fan in the middle -- it was the "big room" to me. So one night I dreamt that I had appeared one day holding onto the cord of the ceiling fan in the big room, with my family standing on the floor looking up at me. They asked who I was, and I said, "I'm your new kid." I let go and they caught me, and I woke up convinced that that was how I was born.

J.J.D.H.

I believed that the world, and most of the other people are part of an alien construction designed to test me. If I pass the test, then I get to be taken to the 'real world'. I guess I haven't passed the test yet!

Chris

i used to belive that the whole world apart from where you are didn't exsist and you and whoever was in the room were the only people who exsited

Anon

Up until the age of 6 or 7, I believed that nothing or nobody else in the world had existed until I was born. It had all just appeared when I got here.

Helen Yates (UK)