Mythic identity: your fantasy roles from growing up

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The community name "Wrong Planet" reflects alienation as a social consequence but also implies an identity of literal otherworldliness. Did any of you have the fantasy of being an alien while growing up? Do you still?

I was never an alien. I always obsessed over stories of fairies and elves and other mythic creatures. Even today I regard myself as a sort of "elf" since people regard me as so different but helpful. I'm the "brownie" around the house since I avoid most social interactions but do most of the necessary house maintenance (changing difficult lightbulbs, sweeping the walk, fixing most anything that gets broken... I'm in a shared house with 8 others, things get broken alot) but feel more like a "gargoyle" when I'm protective about the stability of the household (e.g. difficult housemates or solicitors).

I used to juggle and clown for a local community theater circus troupe and there I was very much a trickster-fairy and always had a magic trick or other surprise in my pocket. At the very least, I always carried candy to share. I wasn't a very good clown, tho' (can't actually *interact* with people on a direct level, you understand) but everyone said I was really sweet. They were nice.

While growing up and playing with other kids (rare occasions), they would play "Space explorer" or some other nonsense. We would take control of one of the playground structures and that would be our spaceship. They would all be the proud explorers and go out fighting aliens or discovering new worlds. I was always the ship scientist. I got to hang out in the ship and read. Really, this work out for the best. They had their adventures while I got to tell them whether they could go outside and breathe the air of the newly discovered planet.

That's my stuff. What's yours?

I was a elf.

I do actually believe I was one in a past life. Not here but on another plain. I saw my past life in a meditation.

It's strange I still have the gifts I saw myself having in that past life.
I'm still empathic and psychic among other things. I'm just not as good as I was back then.

So I guess that makes me the elf of the fourm.

Mabie we should put these things in our sig's?
You know kinda like the people have the 7 deadly sins in there sigs.

My sister up to this day, says that I'm a little alien haha..she even likes to draw me like that and she calls me ET sometimes..funny thing is I was diagnosed at 21 but she always knew I was interestingly odd, so when I told him I have AS she found it very normal and said "you see I told you!" hehe

Wow! Does this bring back a memory. When I was in Kindergarten, one of the popular games we played in the classroom was astronauts and alien. This was back in 1970-1971 during the Apollo lunar landing missions. The teacher had these costume/boards that you held up in front of you---you had holes for your arms and holes for you to see through. There were several astronaut costumes and one alien. I remember only being interested in playing that game if I were the alien. If my memory serves me correctly, if I didn't get the alien I refused to play.

When I was a kid, I pretended to be:

Beetlejuice (cartoon version)
A wolf
A lion
A dinosaur
A Pokemon trainer

Nowadays, I like imagining myself as the human little sister figure to my favorite anime vampires: Abel from Trinity Blood, Alucard from Hellsing and Jiro from Black Blood Brothers.

I'm gona add mine to my sig. sounds to cool not to.

Boy, did I ever! I have always been so very different and most of my life I have day dreamed about the day I would find my true people. In school I was called - among other things - Moon Bird, the only name other kids had for me that I didn`t mind. I felt like I could have come from the Moon. I allowed myself to fantasise about the mothership returning to collect me.
I still have no sense of understanding "normal" people and I am as alien as ever in this incomprehensible society. So I guess you could say that I still am waiting for my ride!