When I was 8 years old and beginning a new school I took solace in the idea that maybe I was really from Mars and was brought to earth as an experiment. My parents were not my real parents and I didn't really have any sisters, it was just a big experiment. Whenever things got tough I would go to that kind of thinking to give myself sort of a break from the stress of the new small town kid gone to the big city. It served me well at the time.