I had a couple classmates that pretended to be vampires back in elementary and middle school. They’d pretend their Koolaid was blood, complain about the sunlight, and bite their friends a lot. Not enough to draw blood, though. I haven’t kept up with most of them, but one guy is a teacher now. He seems pretty normal.
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 also had a university friend/acquaintance who claimed to be a werewolf. What’s strange is that he didn’t let everyone in on the secret. Just those close to him. He acted pretty normal 99% of the time, but when in the company of those who ‘knew’, he would sometime exhibit…well…werewolf behavior. No idea what happened to him.
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 can only remember one girl in middle school who said she was a cat and would scratch and hiss at people.
Search up neko subliminals on Youtube and neko journal on Wattpad. She may be that sort of person
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.
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
I did not have a classmate that acted like they had dark powers…
That was me.
I got past it before uni, thankfully.
i went to college with a guy who insisted everyone call him, “the dude” until well into sophmore year.
Was he obviously not a golfer?
BioWizard
Glad to see you’re using your powers for the good of mankind.
Not so much supernatural, but a few in the less socially-included clique thought of themselves as rats. Grew nails long, scurried about, and most weirdly - hung out and ate lunch in the bathroom. It went on for a few years, well into sixth form, and ended up requiring a prefect to patrol the bathrooms at breaktimes to make sure they weren’t up to anything.
Oddly enough, I haven’t heard anything about them in school-reunion-type chatter.
Probably got reslly in to magic mushrooms
They made it big in Vegas, surprised you hadn’t heard.
No shit? Well ain’t that a kick in the head.
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 used to be that girl. I pretended to be an alien, I committed for about one school year and dropped it the next
I met a kid at a math competition who insisted that he was a robot. He told us all he was 11.8 years old, and he didn’t bend his elbows when he walked. He didn’t smile or laugh with the other kids, and just stayed to himself the whole time.
I only saw him that one day, but I can tell you he was fully committed to being a robot that day.
A kid I went to school with named Adam told us at lunch he was an android when we were 12 years old. He was new to the school and said he had to go to new schools every year so people wouldn’t find out his secret. He claimed he felt no emotions or pain and was a genius.
A kid named Steven asked him to prove it. Adam jabbed his thumb with an unfurled paper clip and made himself bleed, then put salt on it without showing any pain. So Steven stabbed him in the hand with a fork and he screamed, cried, and ran to the bathroom. He wasn’t an android. Steven got detention. Kids are weird.
A guy i went to high school with wasn’t vampire. But he was a “Psychic Vampire Hunter” who hunted and protected people from Psychic Vampires. Basically it would be other guys he didn’t like he would deem as Psychic Vampires. Guys who had gfs basically lol.
I think he’s a Sub teacher these days last i heard.
No, but I’ve pretended to be cisgender in order to survive
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I had a classmate who thought they were an anime character.
✔️ Naruro run
✔️ UwU
✔️ Exaggerated facial experessions
✔️ Senpai/Nani?!Cool person though.
I was that classmate lol
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.
Yes, but from my end actually. I thought I had the ability to control the weather, and I went down this rabbithole when I read stuff about Mythicals and AWTOK from Wattpad. That place was wild, there were people claiming to be relatives of gods and were the “chosen ones” to represent mythicals in the war or some shit like that. One of them had a discord community server at one point and claimed they could “detect your mythical type” (some people tried using different accounts and they got different results each time LOL). As to how committed they are, they would listen to subliminals, practice magic every day, make designs for their desired mythical type, etc
I had to look up what AWTOK is and now I have to live with the knowledge that such a community exists…
It would be cool if it was just a fictional setting that people write in, but the fact that people genuinely believe it is pretty wild. I’m shocked that AWTOK apparently originated in the 2000’s. It seems more like a new thing for some reason. I knew of otherkin and therians in passing, but didn’t know anyone who was one. I’m assuming this is a conspiracy theory to explain why some people drop out of the community. Definitely not that they eventually grew out of it.
I went down the rabbit hole and holy fuck, this is terrifying. It’s a woowoo doomsday cult for kids.
No one did stuff like that when I was in school. That may have more to do with how long ago I was in school, or just the part of the US I went to school in lol
One of the punk girls bit me on the nipple when I was a senior in highschool in 1998. That was apparently her thing
Does that count?
