When you think back on your life, at what age do you feel like you felt different? what happened
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I felt different in high school because of ADD. My mother is trying to argue I was prodromal then to get me registered legally in a certain way. I don’t know.
I know for sure I started having psychotic experience in 2008 when I traveled in India. I was using ketamine and I had magical things happen. Anyway
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idk really. my mom told me i was different as a toddler. if she put me in a room with people i would become a statue in the corner and not interact. when i was about 2 someone said about me “that baby needs a psychiatrist”. not sure when i realized i was different. easy answer would be when i was put on medication at 10 but idk if i even thought i was different then. i guess i can see im different now but to me its normal. maybe i think everyone else are the weird ones haha
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Based on IQ tests when I was 8 years old I was put ahead in school and was always 2 years younger than my fellow students.
That being said I still had friends.
I think a lot of people feel different at some point in life.
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From an early age. Age 5-6?
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its so interesting reading about peoples experiences. i always felt a bit different. i remember strange experiences as a child, things that looking back sound like hallucinations. ofc at that age i had no idea. i also remember my paranoia getting worse over the years. i remember things from school that were kinda strange. i also remember myself telling people about things i experience and saying “i dont remember if this is from a dream, a movie or my memories”
i was convinced these things were universal experiences that every young developing child experiences, but rn idk
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In my childhood i would see ghosts in my room and I started hearing voices. I would also as a child feel hands caressing my face when no one was around. I think I don’t know what was happening.
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I had horrific nightfrights as a young child
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i very vividly recall when i was 9 we went on vacation. we were staying at a motel and i was playing outside with my toy cars in the dirt. there was this parked car nearby. i saw 4 college students walking and getting into said vehicle. i sat there and kept playing and was staring at the vehicle. it had dark tinted windows and i couldnt see in. i was confused why the vehicle never started and why they never drove off in it. i didnt leave that spot and i kept looking at the vehicle and playing with my toys. probably over an hour later when i walked up to the window and held my face up to it to look in, it was empty. there were no people there. its like they got into it and never left the vehicle. i thought they were sitting in a parked car for hours but it wasnt real. the car was real but they werent. i can still remember what they looked like
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i grew up thinking god was screaming at me at times 
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if u feel comfortable sharing, what was that like
I was 39 when I got diagnosed however I started seeing things off and on a couple of years before that I didn’t know what was happening I thought it was real.
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I slept on my parents floor for 5 years. I would hallucinate ghosts coming out of my closet. Recurring nightmares. I have a memory of waking up to my grandmother slapping me in the face because I was screaming bloody murder while I was sleeping
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Around the same time for me, too. But I think the reality truly sunk in when I was around 10-11 years old.
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for me I was diagnosed with ”asperger’s” at age 5 and with unspecified psychosis first at 14-15
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I knew from around 7-8 that I was different because I didn’t make friends easily or keep friends well.
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I knew something was wrong for sure in my 20s, although I felt different as a teenager. I knew I had a lot of anxiety when I was a junior in high school.
However, after college, I knew I was different from the other people my age because the same things that bothered other people would really upset me on an a whole different level.
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I had paranoid delusions as a kid probably 12 or 13. Went away after a while and then I got hit with SZ at 21.
From a very young age.
I was fine until shortly after I turned 23.