Does anybody have schizophrenia from child hood

[TheFountainPen]

My psychosis only started in my twenties.

[Schztuna]

Always had paranoia, some odd beliefs, mild visual hallucinations that I assumed were just a really visual imagination, and magical thinking.

Internal hallucinations really didn’t start causing too many issues till maybe 11 or 12 years old (they were of the blasphemous variety… Good times). Didn’t understand those were hallucinations— I just assumed it was my brain fighting with itself.

When I was around 4 or 5, I was on a walk with my parents. We stopped for some reason, and I was looking at a bush and noticed it had little berries.

I heard an internal voice say “juniper.”

That was the very first time I ever experienced something like that.

Had my first and only full psychosis to-date when I was 26.

Like @rogueone and other folks, I somehow managed to mask that stuff, and grew up relatively okay-adjusted with friends, and did somewhat well in school and extracurriculars.

[Three]

I had symptoms but probably not childhood schizophrenia… I had voices from about age 7 - calling my name - I thought it was a ghost and didn’t know what it wanted. I thought an alien was contacting me because I saw it’s face when I closed my eyes at night and I had the delusion of repetitive numbers and predicting plane crashes age about 7… I thought I’d need to kill myself because I was causing it.

I also had a realistic hallucination of a giant spider going to hide behind a bucket - there aren’t any spiders that big

very paranoid as a child and teen but other than that I went full blown age 17

[Ryanana]

I wrote a lot but thought better of going into as much detail into my personal life and my family life.

Needless to say it was rough growing up and I believe some elements of this illness did show itself.

[anon15119022]

You know what i think i had something like that also but i didnt remember i had alot of ocd also

[anon15119022]

I had something like that i thought i could predict things i had to do rituals to try and stop them from happening

[Moon]

I sometimes wonder. I was 10 when i thoufht my mom was replaced by a robot

[Pikasaur]

I’ve had voices and delusionsl thinking since I was 5, started hallucinating at 12

[Happy_H]

Oh, I don’t know if it counts as paranoia, but when I was a teen, I got a job at a fast food place. There were cameras all over the restaurant. I started to feel like I was being watched everywhere, even outside of work. I worried a lot about cameras. I’d run quicker on my way home from the store and such because I didn’t want to be watched.

[Mars]

I’ve had a fear of cameras since I was 13.