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A girl in my class believed that I was a undercover ape. In pre school I played that I was a gorilla swinging in the trees and beated my chest while I shouted like Tarzan. I also ate a lot of bananas and other fruit as well as nuts. It was cleared up when she told her mum and she called over to my mother to tell her the news.
Kim
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When me and my three cousins and my sister were small, we made believe that we were actually half birds and half people, like a mix between faries and angels, about 15 cm high. We were stuck in human form temporarily, and after a few years (or when we became old), we would revert back to our original form. We had wings on our backs, and we would fly from tree to tree, across states and countries, learning more and eating food from peoples windows.
Since we had favorite colors, like mine was pink, and for the other cousins, red, green etc, we made believe that our feathers were those colors.
Similarly, we had a parallel belief that we were super-people who ruled over a galaxy of our own, and that although we could not get there for a while (being exiled or kept out by some evil force, we could still create worlds and stars in it by throwing paper pieces out of the balcony or window and saying a few special words. And that would have capes to wear in our favorite colors.
We'd have a hierarchy based on age. And our thrones would be proportionately large. We'd ride through our states and even planets on magical beasts (also depending on our age). The oldest would ride a tiger, the youngest a cat.
It got pretty real, and sometimes I still wish it were true.
Rylan
When I was young, I used to think that everybody in this world was fake except me. Eevrything is happening just to trick me. That only my life was real! Kinda of like the Trueman Show (Jim Carrey). Ever felt like that?!
Baskar
I used to believe that I came from the moon, and that all the stars were pieces of the moon. There were as many stars as there were moon children, and we each had our own to look out for us.
Briony
when i was little i was confident that my mind didn't belong to my body and that is was only a question of exercise to use the body of other people as a container for my mind
Debby
as a kid, i was told by my older cousins that i wasnt human until i turned 7 years old.
twk
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When I was about 5 or 6, I used to think that I was the reencarnation of Jesus Christ, ´cos I always thought I looked like him, my father´s name is José and mother is Maria (Joseph and Mary, in portuguese). I´m 20 now, and I swear, if nothing happens untill I am 33, I´ll start wearing shoes and I´ll finally cut my hair.
Antonio Delvecchio, Porto Alegre/ BRAZIL
I used to believe that all I see was scenery created just for me, and if I change my way home, I could see people building new façades.
Luiz from Brazil
When I was young, the "Planet Of The Apes" film series was popular and I was into them in a big way. I used to think that I was the only "real" person on the planet and that all others were really gorillas like in the movies! They simply wore human costumes whenever I was around. Of course they were smart enough to know when I would be watching t.v. or movies, so they put on their costumes when they knew I would be watching. When they were alone and away from me, the masks came off.
Mike
My school sometimes had "special" kids come talk to us about living with a disability. I wanted to be special too so I would walk around dragging one leg and talking like I had Down Syndrome. I'm sure my parents were impressed!
ANON
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when i was a kid i used to think i was a horse called joey, i even had an imaginary horse girlfriend called lily. this abruptly stopped when i galloped into a wall and broke my wrist.
neeeeeeigh
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when i was in second grade, i used to believe that adults had a slower pulse than kids. so i took my pulse, decided that it was really slow, and reasoned that i was secretly an adult in a child's body. then i would take the pulse of other kids at school, and if theirs was as slow as mine, i would tell them how they were secretly adults, just like me. most kids i told this to were fascinated. we had a little club going for a while.
ben
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My younger sister went through a very long phase of pretending she was a dog. She would wear a dog collar and wanted to be led around by a leash. My grandparents were terribly concerned about this but no one would tell me why as I knew she was just pretending. It finally dawned on me when I was old enough to understand masochism. Luckily my sister is now a veterinarian!
-ik
When I was little I had a terrifying thought..."What if I'm the only person that has this voice in their head..." For a couple of weeks I went around trying to figure out if people thought about things in their head or if they would wait and talk out loud in private.
Ben (Australia)
After seeing an afterschool show, I believed my mind, if I believed, could make ANYTHING happen. So I tested this theory by sitting outside the house and staring at the wall. I believed I could create a door in the wall. When nothing appeared after an hour, I lamented that I must not have had enough belief.
Pahokee
I used to believe that someone had made a mistake in making me a girl, since being a girl didn't suit me, and that it would just be a matter of time till the error was fixed and I magically became a boy. In the meanwhile, I thought I should continue acting like a boy and not make a big deal out of it, so no one would notice the difference when the actual change came. Now I'm a lesbian, and I don't want to be a boy anymore.
Leah
i used to imagine that the entire earth was just a puppet show run by a giant. i would be really embarrassed if i did something stupid, because i thought an audience was watching me.
corinne m.
I used to believe that I was a robot or alien because I had not been circumcised.
Scott
I used to think that all reality was a dream and that I was really in a science experiment sleepwalking everywhere I went. When I went school I was really in an abandoned school going through the routine while all of these scientists, that I couldnt see were watching me. :)
Paul
i used to think that there was another family just like mine in every country in the world, with a little girl just like me. so every day i would think that there would be me, the american kristen, going to school, eating dinner, brushing my teeth, reading a book, anything, and that in any other country in the world the other me was doing the same thing. i often wondered if we could just trade places, if i could go to china or somewhere for a day and be another me.
this principle also applied to mirrors- i was certain there was a backwards world in them as well.
kristen williams
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