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Anonymous wrote:My friends and I used to "read" each others' cards in middle school. I just made s*** up, and I assume everyone else did, too. It's fun. Let her have fun.

+1. I know I was into a lot of this "telling the future" stuff in middle school. Then when random things happened I would smile smugly and say things like "just as the prophecy foretold".

Now I'm a completely normal adult. Don't stress it OP

I mean, you're on DC Urban Moms, so ... IDK about "normal" ...

Anonymous wrote:My friends and I used to "read" each others' cards in middle school. I just made s*** up, and I assume everyone else did, too. It's fun. Let her have fun.

+1. I know I was into a lot of this "telling the future" stuff in middle school. Then when random things happened I would smile smugly and say things like "just as the prophecy foretold".

Now I'm a completely normal adult. Don't stress it OP

Anonymous wrote:My family is Catholic and my grandmother and mom were super upset by the tarot and ouija board stuff. At least in our strain of Irish Catholicism, it’s considered really risky to tempt spirits that might be caught between worlds — like nothing good can come of that because if they were good spirits they’d be in heaven or doing their time in purgatory, so definitely you’re only going to hear from the really bad sorts. I don’t know what I think about that, but I think it’s at least something to consider, if you believe in spirits at all. It gave me enough pause that I started passing on that stuff at parties. If there are bad spirit, I really don’t want to be drawing their attention. Big no thank you on that. I’ve seen poltergeist.

Well, poltergeist is, you know, not a documentary

Anonymous wrote:Must be so nice to be you and not have to worry about REAL problems, OP.

I was into tarot at the same age. It led to strictly nothing except a few moments of joy. Let her enjoy herself with 100% harmless fun.

Would you rather she gets groomed on the internet, cyberbullies others, or shoplifts at the mall, like some classmates of my daughter's???

What is your damage??

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My family is Catholic and my grandmother and mom were super upset by the tarot and ouija board stuff. At least in our strain of Irish Catholicism, it’s considered really risky to tempt spirits that might be caught between worlds — like nothing good can come of that because if they were good spirits they’d be in heaven or doing their time in purgatory, so definitely you’re only going to hear from the really bad sorts. I don’t know what I think about that, but I think it’s at least something to consider, if you believe in spirits at all. It gave me enough pause that I started passing on that stuff at parties. If there are bad spirit, I really don’t want to be drawing their attention. Big no thank you on that. I’ve seen poltergeist.

+1

Don't open the door.

OP here. To be clear my family is not religious. We do not believe in spirits, or purgatory, or any of that stuff. As a result I'm not worried about "opening the door" or anything -- I'm more worried about is this age appropriate etc

This should not worry you at all. Just smile.

And sometimes people do have dreams about stuff that then happens. In college, I had a dream about being at the top of the Washington monument but it was like an air traffic control center and we are trying to direct a small plane so it didn’t crash into the White House. The next day, a small aircraft definitely did accidentally land near the White House (long before 9-11). I don’t think I’m psychic, but I have had weird coincidences like that multiple times over more than 50 years. Whatever, and I definitely joked with my college boyfriend and my husband that “I’m psychic” when I don’t believe in that stuff at all. I am a person with vivid dreams that I remember well, which is unusual. The harder part is that my mundane dreams seem super real and I can think it really happened. Like, I vividly remember a high school dream where my mom came in and woke me up and told me I didn’t need to pick up my sisters at school that day. And so I got in trouble for not picking them up when I 100% believed I had been told not to do so.

I went through this stage. My mom didn't encourage it but didn't make a big deal about it either. However, she expressed her skepticism and I know this helped me see that it was a waste of time. I knew she was smart and ulltimately I respected her point of view.

Anonymous wrote:I would thank God profusely if this rises to the level of worry in your life.

Feel better, lady? You created a snarky, unhelpful, and of course, uneducated response. As someone with a bipolar person in their family, I agree with the other posters. While unlikely, this could be a sign of hypomania or other mental health disorders. Good news is that there will be other very noticeable signs. Bipolar typically starts in the teens.

Anonymous wrote:Could be hypomania. Could just been teen stuff. Keep an eye on it.

This was my first thought.

Anonymous wrote:My family is Catholic and my grandmother and mom were super upset by the tarot and ouija board stuff. At least in our strain of Irish Catholicism, it’s considered really risky to tempt spirits that might be caught between worlds — like nothing good can come of that because if they were good spirits they’d be in heaven or doing their time in purgatory, so definitely you’re only going to hear from the really bad sorts. I don’t know what I think about that, but I think it’s at least something to consider, if you believe in spirits at all. It gave me enough pause that I started passing on that stuff at parties. If there are bad spirit, I really don’t want to be drawing their attention. Big no thank you on that. I’ve seen poltergeist.

+1

Don't open the door.

Just make her start predicting things. Like, put up or shut up!

Oh jeez. This is the kind of thing I could totally see myself having done in middle school. You have one stupid thought that comes true and decided to run with it.

It's a young teen. "Oh, how interesting." She'll probably be over it in under a year.

I'm with the that's nice, dear poster. It's a phase that is usually very harmless. I'd worry if it becomes obsessive.

My mom got me a palm analysis kit when I was this age.

That said, my mom also believes she is touched by the gift (but lightly) and my sister and I believe we both are, too - though it's small stuff, like just intuition and a sense of knowing. My mom knows who is calling on the phone, for example.

My friends and I used to "read" each others' cards in middle school. I just made s*** up, and I assume everyone else did, too. It's fun. Let her have fun.

She’s trying out a new identity. Just wait and watch.