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A girl I knew in high-school thought she was Napoleon Bonaparte reincarnated.
She sometimes wore that French military coat and have her hand tucked. She would speak in what little French she knew.
I hooked up with her. She went on to do CS and is pretty wealthy
An interesting self delusion, hopefully harmless though
Oh totally, she was super fun. Just a bit eclectic
you really fumbled the bag bruh
You're telling me
With that backstory, hopefully making a tinder competitor - Bone-a-tart.
Not a supernatural creature, but I've never seen someone so committed to something, let alone pretending to be a character, like a friend I have.
So, for context, I have a friend who disagreed with his Dramatic Arts professor on how a character had to be played (or something like that) on the first class of the year, and apparently after some arguing, the professor challenged my friend to attend to any business he needed to do in the campus as normal, but portraying a character, any of his choosing, for the rest of the year. And god damn, he did. For the rest of the year, he bought a Victorian era costume, complete with cane and top hat, learned many quirks of the language at the time, and many of the behaviors of society. And Sir Marcus Godwin was born.
He went full in-character mode. He talked using the time's English, walked like a gentleman, and behaved like he was a Victorian era man who was time travelled into the present. It was really hard not to laugh, specially when he spoke, with professors trying REALLY hard not to laugh. I think the DA professor must have warned all other professors of the classes my friend had, because I'm surprised he wasn't expelled of any of them. But he made it to the end of the year nonetheless and not only did he get the max grade on that class (which apparently was nearly impossible with that professor), but also got a fuck ton of money on bets he made along the year.
Increadible.
wow, that's dedication. As a teacher, I can understand why he got the highest possible grade
That is so chad
*Chadwick
The Third
Esq.
I knew a guy that was CONVINCED he was a werewolf. He would refuse to go out on full moons and would bark/snarl at people in school if they got too close. He's in prison for CP now.
That sounds like everyone ignored the very obvious giant red flags of his deteriorating mental health
I really, REALLY wanted to be a ninja turtle when I was like 7 or 8. I didn’t let anyone in on that, but I thought if I wanted it enough I might change into one overnight.
I also folded black t-shirts to make a ninja hood and snuck around at night
I had a teacher with Vertigo so she had a couch in her room. Naturally, I would sleep on it of we had nothing to do.
He literally put in those fake plastic vampire teeth and bit me while I slept.....yeah.
I had a kid in one of my classes in middle school who was trying to convince people The Undertaker (as in Mark Calaway, professional wrestler for WWF/WWE) was his uncle and that his powers were real and he had totally seen them and he was training him to do the whole lightning thing. Mmhmm yes'siree.
Pretty sure this kid ate paint too from the look of him.
I swear that kid was at every school. They did a great version of that kid in 8-Bit Christmas.
I dressed like a cowboy for awhile as a preteen. I try not to think about it too much. Though I still have a hat tucked away in my closet. Just in case.
If you lived south of the Mason Dixon no one would have noticed. It's so ubiquitous people forget how ridiculous it is: men who take themselves very seriously attending the office in the same outfit they wore to go trick-or-treating when they were six. I don't mean it as any kind of condemnation. I love the ridiculous, delight in the passion of people grooving in their niche, and absurdity aside western wear can be a good look. But I feel the same way about all kinds of theatrical clothes, while the stetson crowd tends to ridicule the other.
You say that. But I was south of the Mason Dixon line and I definitely stood out. Even at some country music concerts. Because I was dressing as if I was the one on-stage at any given concert. I saved and eventually had my white Stetson, quite the rotation of Garth Brooks-style (sometimes literally!) Western shirts, Wrangler jeans, boots, belt buckles, the whole nine yards.
Your average concert-goer was in a t-shirt (IF THAT) and a ball cap with a fishing hook on it.
To say nothing of dressing like that in other, still-less appropriate, non-concert settings.
In pre school my twin sister and her friends thought they were fairies when they argued for example they would make up stories about each other being evil fairies and stuff like that lots of funny drama what's embrassing to me is that they got me believeing in it too, fun stuff
One of my friends has claimed he is half human half wolf since I've known him. And he never stopped. We've long graduated school.
I have to admit, I did not expect to run across a post like this! I thought I was the only one with this experience as I have never heard anyone share anything remotely similar to what I remember.
I was friends/neighbors with a kid when we were in elementary school and that is almost all he talked about. We spent many hours debating (as best we could as 4th graders, haha) the unlikelihood that he was actually a vampire and he would always end up leaving me questioning if maybe, just maybe, he really was. He had elaborate backstories for why he was here and why his parents moved to my hometown and how their life and existence was different from everyone else. He also took great lengths to explain away doubts I had about what I knew of vampires and their limitations from movies. He was very convincing and I never truly knew if he was lying or not.
He moved away shortly after and I never heard from him again. I always attributed it as some form of attention seeking or making up for a lack of something (he was not a super popular kid). But I always admired his imagination.
The part that still strikes me as strange is that this was well before the Twilight vampire craze age. So I’m not really sure where the idea came from.
I myself was enamored with vampire stuff and in high school met an online boyfriend who really committed to the shtick of being a vampire - though a significantly weakened in bloodline so he could walk in sunlight. I think at one point he was also claiming to be a vessel for the archangel Michael. Please know this was all happening in 2000/2001, so long before Supernatural!
I caught up with him briefly about 15 years after high school, and he's still claiming to be a vampire. A divorced vampire who smokes a lot of weed, but still a vampire.
i hope you check in with him in another 15 years to see what kind of vampire activities he's up to
A divorced vampire who smokes a lot of weed, but still a vampire.
LOL
Doesn't sound like the best life but it could be worse I guess. At least he's still a vampire.
My man is out here just smoking weed and eating his steaks rare. Let him live... or unlive... I'm not trying to assume his corporeal identity.
I used to be that girl. I pretended to be an alien, I committed for about one school year and dropped it the next
Ha ha, wow. I was disciplined for wearing SUNGLASSES in school. No way I would have been able to go full goth back in the early 1990s, let alone pretend to be a vampire.
Is not a supernatural thing but a girl pretended to be a cat. Apparently this is kinda common? Or at least since then I seen a few people online say a girl at their school also pretended to be a cat? I think we were 10. Anyway I don't know how she is now because she left about the year later and idk her last name to look her up.
I can only remember one girl in middle school who said she was a cat and would scratch and hiss at people.
Ever heared of the French nuns that caught a case of mass hysteria and started meowing like cats? I'll quote a section about it on Wikipedia:
In The Epidemics of the Middle Ages, an 1844 collection of works written by J. F. C. Hecker (and translated by Benjamin Guy Babington), a translator's note by Babington, citing an unnamed medical textbook, recalls the story of a nun who lived in a French convent during an unspecified time (presumably in the Middle Ages) who inexplicably began to meow like a cat, shortly leading the other nuns in the convent to meow as well. Eventually, all of the nuns in the convent would meow together for a certain period, leaving the surrounding community astonished. This did not stop until the police threatened to whip the nuns.
They just sound really bored to me lmao
All the right winger panicked about "children identifying as cats" need to read this thread and remember that kids have always imagined weird things.
Also I knew one who was like that about being a horse.
I knew a girl in college who also believed she was a cat (this was 20 years ago). She would also scratch and hiss at people. Additionally, she would randomly meow in class. They would just sit there "cleaning" themselves as well, licking their hands and arms. She wore a pair of cat ears and a tail. It was immensely weird.
Hope she's still living her best kitty life.
Half the traffic of this post comes from people worried that they might've been mentioned.
We see you, Hank.
I put on my robe and my wizard hat.
What? Me? No! Definitely not!
I had a classmate who thought they were an anime character.
✔️ Naruro run
✔️ UwU
✔️ Exaggerated facial experessions
✔️ Senpai/Nani?!
Cool person though.