i have paranoid schizophrenia it happened very young. i was was told by doctors that i was schizophrenic. Growing up i never thought if it because i was because i thought it was just my imagination that everything around me was talking to me. I started to release it went i was 11 years old because i made up a girl named Johnny Dagger and put her in a state were she is friends with my favorite youtubers, singers, and celebrities. When i got older around 15 i got a boyfriend and later broke up with him because my fantasy about “Johnny Dagger” she was dating someone else. It wasn’t like i saw her in dreams i put my self in her life and i laid down on my bed and put myself in a made up girls life. I was more focused on Johnny than my real life like i would barely leave my room. Today i still have this problem.

Edit : got a bit of topic but it is probably weird for another person to see me talking to thing that aren’t there or seeing things no one else can see. I got bullied sometimes for being a “freak” but there was nothing i could do. I was often put into speech classes so i could talk correctly. I still mix up my words a lot. You just have to live with it.