We started talking about a few months ago and I found out she had been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
She is currently on two types of medication and she told me her walks are depressingly quiet now.
He couldnt show us any of his moves or weapons, as his Sensei had forbidden it.
One day, he claimed he could spin so fast he could turn invisible.
Several classmates demanded he prove it during free-time and for whatever reason, he finally relented.
He started spinning in circles, but we could still see him.
So he kept spinning.
Until he threw up.
My friend thought he was Deadpool with all the powers and all.
He now has a really crooked arm.
They had really severe childhood abuse/trauma to contend with, and coped with it by believing they were psychic.
(We met in like junior high when they still believed this.)
Eventually, they realized that they werent entirely wrong just a little bit misdirected.
I met a girl at a very young age while going to church.
Her family was deeply religious, but in a messed up way.
So we dated off and on, and after high school hit it off pretty strong.
She honestly believed she was a fairy.
Not sure what became of him.
Youd think that once people reached this level and didnt have powers theyd quit, but brainwashing.
Ally always described It as being whiter than paper with two slits for a nose and sharp fangs.
I whole heartedly believed her because why wouldnt I?
As the years went on, though, I eventually realized that she was making it up.
But the conviction with which she said that kind of stuff was scary.
Im glad things are better for her.
We were around 11/12 when this was going on and I couldnt believe my friend believed her.
Her friendship group all wore matching bracelets and sang songs about horses and drew pictures of them.
This went on until we were around 14.
Im pretty sure she would make a great cult leader though as she managed to convince so many people.
One of my closest friends that I lived with through most of college thought she had special powers.
It was…weird…to say the least.
Shed been bullied all her life and I always reckoned shed developed this as a coping mechanism.
Hilarious side note, the gates were colored: cyan, magenta, yellow and black.
She got mad at me one time when I referred to them as the Printer Gates.
And youd think that after unloading all that people would run screaming but they….didnt.
Theyd show up at our apartment to talk to her and theyd be talking about these battles and stuff.
All I can figure is she was good at spotting people with over-active imaginations who didnt fit in well.
She probably wouldve made a great cult leader TBH.
She now works in IT and we still talk to each other pretty regularly.
Im guessing that became the outlet for her stories when she grew up so to speak.
When she wasnt in full-on wtf mode she was the most kind and genuinely fun to be around person.
Im sort of afraid the Printer Gates will rear their ugly head again if I bring it up.
Our families go way back so I happen to know other kids were merciless to him all through childhood.
Hes always had problems, though.
Kind of one of those people you’re free to feel arent quite right but not exactly why.
He decided he was a jedi master one day.
Just, like, out of the blue.
Credit where credit is due, he went all the way with it.
Became a minor nerd celebrity for a while.
At first when people challenged the jedi thing (Why dont you have powers then?)
If you pushed he would outright melt down with tears and screaming.
After that the wife supported him.
Thats when we cut ties with him.
She 100% believed she was a werewolf; she was finally diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar years ago.
He would howl at the moon and just be generally strange.
I dont know what happened to him.
Someone i used to be friends with identified as a Lynx.
I was weirded out but she was my friend so i dealt with it.
Knew a guy that swore that he was a reincarnated Kitsune spirit.
(Mythologically, Kitsunes were described as being especially capricious.)
Went to school with a girl who acted like a dog.
Barked, panted, pawed at people.
In class she would reply normally but then bark at the end.
This went on for 3 yrs.
Decided to look her up on FB and she has a good job and seems normal.
Teenagers are fucking weird.
I actually went to high school with a lot of people like this who eventually grew out of it.
I remember one girl specifically because, based on her facebook, she has not grown out of it.
We live in the US and she would put on a British accent and everything.
It seems she has found a partner just like her though and theyre planning a pretty extravagant vampire wedding.
Sometimes it was like being in charge of a Dark Shadows convention.
She wasnt too crazy, but towards the end of the relationship she was getting too bitey.
I need a drink just fucking writing that.
Know a guy that was a wolfkin back in high school.
Which was honestly kinda hilarious.
In the last year, however, he started going to school looking actually normal.
from highschool, I thought I could ask him how his life is going.
Its honestly great, but also kinda scary.
When I was a kid, I think my classmates believed I thought I was a Power Ranger.
I wore morphers constantly, it was my favourite show on TV and I was kind of obsessed.
I kept the morpher with me because I was so freaking alone I needed something.
I was puking every single morning before school multiple times.
Being that anxious all the time sucks and I just wished the Rangers would come and rescue me.
Thats why the morphers were always with me.
I was 9/10 and looking back, I knew they were the only reason why Im still here.
Somehow, thanks to my ass hole mum, everyone knew I still watched it.
Even after I stopped, people still believed I was still obsessed with it.
they werent wrong, but I kept it all quiet.
Also, I dont know why it was such an issue in the first place.
Everyone seemed to think I thought I was a Power Ranger and I dont know why.
That crap even followed me to Uni via one guy from my school.
He very quickly shut up when I asked him why he was pulling this crap here.
I had never spoken to him before or had anything to do with him.
He stayed out of my way after that.
I never thought I was a Power Ranger.
I just enjoyed the show and loved thinking about how it would be to be one.
Actually fighting some monster very rarely came into it.
I was just an incredibly lonely and scared kid who latched onto something as a coping mechanism.
I gotta admit, when I did figure it out I was not diplomatic.
Not aggressive or anything, but not diplomatic.
I may have laughed at him.
One of my middle school teachers children believed he could talk to bees.
He quickly enough learned that he could not actually talk to bees.
I forget if he learned if he was allergic to bees.
Met a girl in psych who believed she could communicate with dead people and tell peoples future.
Make of that what you will.
My ex-boyfriend was certain he was a vampire.
He kept going to churches, cemeteries, all those kind of places.
I failed at bringing him back to reality.
He died of cancer in January this year.
