When I was in elementary school, I hit my head once while on the playground. I couldn't figure out what had hit me, and my mom joked that it was antimatter. Which I believed. Which is normal for a little kid. But I kept believing it for years. I started thinking that whenever something weird happened, it was because of the antimatter incident. That it had changed me in some way, like given me superpowers.

When I was 10 ish I started thinking that I was a mermaid, like I actually believed it. I thought that my tail was invisible and no one else could see it.

For years after that I was obsessed with the occult. I believed in tarot cards, astrology, palm reading, witchcraft, fairies. I thought I could see fairies every once in a while. I believed in ghosts and would see them around my house.

I thought that I had powers, like mindreading. I thought there was a curse on me that caused people who were mean to me to get hurt.

However, I consider this all to be the prodromal stage of my schizophrenia. It only really became active when the voices started at age 15.