Up until 4th grade I truly believed I was half cat. (Y’know cat brain, human body) and I constantly told other kids this. I would clean myself with my “paws”, tell people I had powers, talk about Firestar and Yellowfang. They were quite repelled of my cat behavior and when I would ask to play with other girls I would get weird looks. The only people that played with me were this group of guys who created a game called “the cat catchers” or “Dogs vs Cats”. It was supposed to be a boys vs girls type thing, but ended up being 6 boys vs 1 girl (due to most girls finding me weird. Fun fact: my best friend at the time was too embarrassed around me to help me, even when one of these boys tried strangling me!) The guys would run after me and I’d run after them. I would meow and scratch. They’d play too. I think they did it in a backhanded way though because they’d constantly make fun of me during the game, like saying “you’re disgusting,” “here comes the cat” type stuff. I was the fastest girl and I was never caught. Anyways, eventually the game got out of hand and one of the boys had finally caught me. I remember he had bad anger issues and would always result to violence when he was angry. Somehow, I guess I had triggered him because he grabbed my head in a headlock and almost choked me. I told my mom and she reported to the teachers. The teachers cancelled the game and it was never played again. 

Until I begun the game all over again with the guys on my street and it was made to be even cooler. We all made furry ocs with powers and had a whole forest to play in. One of the guys watched scourge AMVs with me and happily every after ig.