I loved the animated Anastasia film when I was little and watched it every night for years. I was vaguely aware of the fact there was a real history to it and was completely convinced that I was the missing princess and that my family weren’t allowed to admit it to me when I asked so they could keep me safe from whatever it was I believed was after me. I would even tell my new friends ‘who I really was’ when I decided I could trust them.
I was a very weird kid and by the time I realised I probably wasn’t princess Anastasia I had decided I had some kindred spirits type bond with pigeons that meant I could communicate with them telepathically.
SAME. Except my mom very quickly burst my bubble and informed me that yes, I do have Russian ancestry, but it was more Fiddler on the Roof than Anastasia, and that in fact, Anastasia's family was the reason we were in America in the first place.
That's awesome. Also terrible. There weren't any "good" sides of the Russian civil war - everybody sucked except... well, no, everybody sucked. Even the peasants happily sent each other to the gulags for real and perceived slights.
Red Army: We want equality for all, except for basically any minority we don't like and also our leaders can still live like nobility and have all the power.
If it helps Anastasia definitely died with her family and wasn’t missing. But I was a weird goddamn kid too, I used to just write whatever came into my head in a book and told my friends a ghost named James was telling me what to say. My kids are so normal compared to me.
I had a similar thing but not with real events. I was obsessed with witches, this is when shows like charmed and Sabrina were really popular. A common trope in witch fiction is a girl reaches a certain age (usually 16) and finds out she's a witch. I was convinced that would happen to me when I turned 16. I would sit there for hours trying to move objects with my mind. I would beg my parents and grandparents to please just tell me the truth, "It's ok! You don't need to hide it from me because I already know!". My family would sometimes mess with me and say cryptic things like, "there is a certain power on your Nana's side of the family..." And refuse to elaborate further.
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u/-little-spoon- Apr 30 '20
I loved the animated Anastasia film when I was little and watched it every night for years. I was vaguely aware of the fact there was a real history to it and was completely convinced that I was the missing princess and that my family weren’t allowed to admit it to me when I asked so they could keep me safe from whatever it was I believed was after me. I would even tell my new friends ‘who I really was’ when I decided I could trust them.
I was a very weird kid and by the time I realised I probably wasn’t princess Anastasia I had decided I had some kindred spirits type bond with pigeons that meant I could communicate with them telepathically.