The Reluctant Medium

When your child wakes up terrified in the middle of the night, unconsolable, over and over again, who do you go to? The pediatrician? I tried that. He said it was night terrors and that he'd "grow out of it". Do you talk to friends and family members about your child claiming to hear voices all night keeping her awake? Chances are, they're going to tell you to put her on meds designed for some type of mental disorder. Is your gut telling you that your child is experiencing something that pills just won't eliminate? You may have a psychic kid on your hands. I have two. They are very different in every way, including how they experience and are affected by their abilities. As parents of these exceptional children, we sometimes feel lonely with this aspect of parenting. It's not like sitting around with other parents discussing behavior issues or the latest round of strep throat floating around the school. Your child's latest ghost sighting probably isn't going to be next on the topic list at the next playdate. We keep quiet...this is why I feel so drawn to start this community. For us parents, psychic or not, to know that we aren't alone. There are other families out there parenting children having similar experiences.

I was a psychic child. My parents had nowhere to go with my claims and so did nothing...not that I blame them. What were they supposed to do? They couldn't understand. They did the best they could. I strive to learn from that and do better. I want to hear my children. I want to understand their experiences and do all I can to support their gifts.

This community is for:

Parents of psychic kids who have no experience with the paranormal and simply don't know what to do to help their extraordinary kids.
Psychic parents with psychic kids looking for others to relate to, or to help other families.
Kids (under 18) with abilities looking for other kids that can understand what they are experiencing.
Anyone willing to lend support to families that need answers to questions and just need to know that there are other families having the same type of experiences.

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Something I have spent the majority of my life avoiding is ghosts. I have had interactions with them for as long as I can remember and if you ask my mom, even before I can remember. I have avoided them partially out of fear built up over the years, but originally I avoided them because of the stigma and the loneliness I experienced being that kind of "different".

I've decided to stop avoiding them. I'm taking baby steps to embrace this ability and learn what I need to learn to still feel in control of my pragmatic life. Why now? What changed?

My son. I have 2 sons, but only one has exhibited signs that are all to familiar to me. It began in his infancy. He woke up many nights screaming and trembling and seeming genuinely frightened by something. He would also tell us of how "shadows were pinching him" and how all the talking in his room was keeping him awake. We've also watched him play and interact with people we couldn't see. He has also been able to answer questions or complain about orders that haven't been spoken out loud yet but were being thought of at that exact moment. This particular skill has lessened over his five years, but we still have a kid with an extraordinary gift on our hands.

I want him to feel supported and accepted. I want him to know that someone understands what he's dealing with. But first, I must allow myself to accept my own "gift". How can I lead and support him unless I do?

So I am going to start at the beginning and recall any preceding events and chronicle my journey forward as a reluctant medium.

I suppose my earliest "memory", and I use quotes because it's actually my mother's memory, of interactions with ghosts was at age 2. She tells a story of being on an important phone call with an attorney when I interrupted with hysterical screaming so much that she had to excuse herself from her phone conversation. When she came to me, I was extremely upset about seeing "Schmoo" in my room. For those of you unfamiliar with Schmoo, he was a 1979 cartoon character that was basically a white blob with eyes, a mouth and whiskers. He did have legs, but I'm still not entirely sure what he was supposed to be. But apparently at age 2, it was the closest thing I could compare what I saw to. As I said, this is my mom's memory, not mine. I have no reason to doubt her though as I continue to have odd experiences such as that one almost on a daily basis.

I also have some vague memories as a very young child witnessing large balls of white light spontaneously and having very clear pictures of dead relatives. My mother and I still debate on whether or not I met one of her aunts that died when I was very small. I can describe her perfectly and remember interacting with her. However, my mother still holds that I never met the woman. Maybe mom's right. Maybe she came to me after she was already dead (although I really hate to let my mother be right about anything - don't you?).

When I remember these events in my childhood, it is difficult to know what was "real" and what was paranormal because it was all just normal for me. I was probably 10 years old or so before I realized this didn't happen to everyone and I was different.

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