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What did you identify as when you were a child?

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JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 15/11/2018 21:24

I need something lighthearted after the incredible grimness of the thread about police intimate searches. As a SA survivor, flashbacks a-go-go

So I was thinking, what kinds of weird shit did you pretend to be when you were a kid? And how would your life be now if the adults around you had taken you really seriously?

My 3yo just announced she is a Terrible Potato who lives in a cave.

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AspieAndProud · 15/11/2018 22:21

From that ghost story above:

Police spokesman says witnesses complained about Anthony Stallard 'throwing his arms in the air and saying woooooo'

llangennith · 15/11/2018 22:20

A fairy who could fly out of my bedroom window. And never come back.

Laceythesheep · 15/11/2018 22:17

A ghostbuster until I grew up and decided I was a farmer Grin

Carowiththegoodhair · 15/11/2018 22:14

A member of Rod Hull’s pink windmill crew.

Smoothyloopy · 15/11/2018 22:13

I swung between Champion the wonder horse & Lassie.

Rachelover40 · 15/11/2018 22:07

Your stories are all so funny. I always imagined myself as a grown up, elegant, sophisticated, clever and beautiful woman who had men falling at her feet.

It didn't all quite happen.

My son wanted to be a ghostbuster and live in Castle Greyskull.

PurpleOva · 15/11/2018 22:05

I was very insistent that I was a mouse for a while, a mouse with a boys name.

My eldest had a cool pseudonym she used for a bit, very flamboyant. My youngest refuses to use her name herself and if asked she is "baby".

Taking any of those things seriously is daft, but we always play along. Nobody told me I wasn't a mouse and if they did, I soon put them straight.... Until I let it go and moved on to something else.

SittHakim · 15/11/2018 22:04

Are you my sister, MinesaBottle?! (Though i think it was a fern that got nibbled in our house.)

MinesaBottle · 15/11/2018 22:02

A Diplodocus. That sadly came to an end when my mum caught me on all fours nibbling the tips of her spider plant (I was about five).

KristinaM · 15/11/2018 22:00

I identified as a dog and spoke to our dog in what I imagined was dog language. But I didn’t tell anyone.

Now I understand that was because of the literal violence of my parents who thought I was human and called me Kristina.

DD identified as Postman Pat. We all had to be characters from Greendale, I was Rev Timms and Dh was Mrs Goggins. She didn’t like Ted Glen ( farmer ) because he had a trailer with hay bales and she was scared of straw. Now I realise this was an early sign that she was a lesbian.

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JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 15/11/2018 22:00

this bloke

The subheading heading is my favourite ever piece of journalism

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Time40 · 15/11/2018 22:00

An eagle. I spent hours making enormous wings out of garden cane and plastic bags, etc (very sadly, they never worked).

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JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 15/11/2018 21:57

Aspie I once found an article about a bloke who was arrested for impersonating a ghost.

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MenstruatorExtraordinaire · 15/11/2018 21:57

I was a horse. My friend and I used to set up jumps in the garden which we would canter round.

smeerf · 15/11/2018 21:53

Various inanimate objects, including a tea leaf. Growing up in London, my mum was concerned this might be misconstrued (cockney rhyming slang) so she convinced me a coffee bean was a better choice.

ScipioAfricanus · 15/11/2018 21:51

Dog, Princess, horse. Space adventurer. Julian from the Famous Five.

Boredboredboredboredbored · 15/11/2018 21:48

Baby from Dirty Dancing.

AspieAndProud · 15/11/2018 21:47

Scooby-doo

I used to identify as a ghost in a spooky fairground. I would have got away with it too if it wasn’t for those meddling kids!

grasspigeons · 15/11/2018 21:47

I was a squirrel for around 4 years. I had a favourite tree that I sat in lots.

Isadora2007 · 15/11/2018 21:47

I definitely identified as a dog. And even asked my priest if I could get to be a dog in heaven.

ContessaHallelujahSparklehorse · 15/11/2018 21:45

I was always just me - the idea of pretending to be anything else always seemed (and seems) terribly strange! DS1 is similar to me, but DS2 is constantly reimagining himself as everything in the world. When I came home earlier he was announcing that he was pregnant with a snake and also two pandas Confused

SittHakim · 15/11/2018 21:44

DSis identified as a diplodocus. For years, till she was about 7. My DD identified as a cat, she was most put out that I couldn't make her grow fur and a tail.

I identified as James Bond. God knows why! I had an inner narrative that would have horrified most of the people around me.

YesItsMeIDontCare · 15/11/2018 21:44

I identified as a spoilt pony who lived at her owner's boarding school with pony friends.

I was specifically a Welsh Pony. [Posh]

These days I try to identify as a spoilt housecat, but it's not working.

NewWomensMovement · 15/11/2018 21:42

My daughter has been insisting she is a cat for years. Not much changes apart from the colour of her fur. I once asked her what her face was like - we googled images and it was of that angry cat meme. That was unexpected. Grin

I used to fantasise about being a hero and saving the day - Indiana Jones style. I used to also wish I could live with just me and the animals populating the planet. I also used to think I was meant to be black and only liked black dolls.

pikachupoo · 15/11/2018 21:40

An Olympian figure skater