What did you identify as when you were a child?

An only child. I had lots of fantasies about living in different scenarios (little house on the prairie, living in a marble village (!?) living underground, etc) My parents were always around (but didn't feature much) and my 2 older siblings were very much airbrushed out entirely.

A boy. I really really wanted to be a boy. From around 4 to 15/16.

There was also lots of pretending to be The Goonies with my brother. We would disappear for hours on our BMXs to the woods to pretend we were hunting for treasure, hiding from baddies, building dens etc.

I liked to think I was a great BMXer but in reality I could barely manage a wheelie let alone any other stunts!

The tartan-skirted Robbie in a comic strip in Girl magazine, who was always having adventures. That's when I wasn't being George in the Famous Five.

A witch in training. I wanted a broomstick and fully expected to be able to astrally project at some future point. Still waiting.

Champion the Wonder Horse. I would gallop around the house on my hands and knees like a mad thing. My Mum would shout at me but I kept on galloping I loved it but used to have awful nose bleeds

A cooker. Not a cook. A cooker.

Empress of the world
or a lawyer

I know Yankee, my parents really let me down. Not only did they turn a blind eye when I was cantering around insisting I was James Coburn, they also let me play football and learn carpentry. Do you think I have a case to sue?

Shame on all you(r) parents for not calling the doctors and having you(r) children species reassigned 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Indiana Jones with my hat & whip...I didn't want to do all the seducing of women though. But definitely wanted to have adventures like him.

A cowboy, I watched a lot of westerns with my dad. Later I decided I'd rather be a vampire.

This morning 2.5 year old DD says she is going to grow down to be a tiny baby and she has also been a cat.

She does knows that she is a girl because she has a ‘normal bottom’ (her own terminology) not a willy like some of her friends or Daddy.

A horse. Specifically a chestnut Arab, 15.2 hands high, outstanding but spirited and tetchy showjumper, which I would demonstrate with endless jumps set up in the garden.

Mercifully my friends thought this was excellent and had equine identities too, although perhaps not quite so sustained as mine!

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For most of year 4 I convinced everyone I was Elizabeth the first hahaha. It worked mainly, until a teacher told me to stop.
My little brother got a Spider-Man costume one Christmas and we had to practically peel it off him because he was Spider-Man for ages.

A mermaid. Then I was a cat.
I lived as a squirrel for a day too.

A duck

Then just as I hit puberty I became androgynous ( late 1970s early 1980s) which then led me into being a punk/ goth

I now identify as a grown up human being

DS1 was Virgil Tracy from Thunderbirds for about a year. He wouldn't respond to his real name, only to 'Virgil'. The baby names threads would have slaughtered me.

I was convinced I was secretly a twin.

I used to drop heavy hints to my parents about it, sure that eventually they would confess that I'd been right all along and that my identical twin (Margaret -- for some reason my parents had randomly named her after my gran, rather than the standard 70s names) had been adopted in mysterious circumstances.

Crikey. Just typing that makes it come back. It felt so real at the time.

An actress... tried my luck but didn't get very far. Although I am a huge drama queen now so I guess I'm sort of living the dream.

DS2 was Dora the Explorer for at least a year.

That was between his Bella from the Tweenies and his Woody phases.

Now he indentifies as an aimlessly wandering procrastinator in jockey shorts; usually found clutching a bowl of cereal.

I spent a year or so as a girl called Mary. I wore a lacy shawl over my head as long black hair- I must have baked!

Also spent a fair bit of time admiring both George and Anne from the famous five, sat because they were so brave.

That was in between making dens up trees.

I was a strange child, and certainly didn't fit in with my peers.

Well Fekko, you say that but watching events in our world unfold, my childhood identity still has a word with me at times. Heck, had I followed my calling, I could have made my profession my hobby!

Horse too, and then a boy.

I was a horse and so was my friend. We had to have our stomachs pumped because we ate so much grass!
Apart from that i regularly believed i was a witch or a vampire

It sounds like it's a normal part of childhood. And we grow out of it.