Am I Psychic?

My name is Aoife and I'm 13 years old. Ever since I was little I've always known I was different from other children; that I wasn't normal. I didn't see ghosts or anything; I just knew I wasn't ordinary.

For a while now weird things have been happening to me; i've always felt as if i'm being watched and when I was about 11 years old I was (in my old bedroom) sitting on my bed reading and I felt two hands on my back before I was pushed face down on my bed. I whipped round only to see-of course- nothing; I think that was the first time anything out of the ordinary happened to me though I could be wrong.

About a year ago when I was 12, I went away to Edinburgh with my mum and Aunt Bernie for the holidays. My mum, Aunt Bernie and I have always been interested in the supernatural so we ended touring the underground vaults of where there had been sightings of ghosts. So yeah, I guess you know what happens next.

I was in the second most haunted room with the rest of the tourists and while we were moving to the next room, I turned my head to get one last look and saw a man at the other side of the room, with his back waling out to the hall that attached the vaults to one another. I only had a few seconds to look at him, so I don't remember every single detail about him; all I remember was the shocking blue colour of his shirt before he was swallowed up by the shadows.

I figured he was a part of the tour and was just getting one last picture of the hall, so I walked on not thinking too much about it. At the end of the tour we were ushered into a room where we sat and had a few drinks before saying what we had experienced. The entire time this was happening I kept my eyes on the door, waiting for the man to walk into the room but he never did.

There was no other man in the tour that had the colour of shirt and I'm not sure if he was a member of staff as they were all dressed in cloaks. I told my mum and aunt about what I saw, hoping if they had seen him too but nobody had seen him but me.

Ever since then I've been seeing things-sometimes moving- like dark figures of men or flashes of black, in the corner of my eye but when I look it's not there.

This year at Halloween break I was on my own in my old bedroom (my room was getting redecorated) and a boy about my age appeared at the corner of my eye. I think he was either behind or next to me at an angle where he couldn't see my as he was craning around me to look at my face. I jumped when I saw him and he disappeared.

I've also seen a woman's face twice now when I pass a particular spot in my room.

Sometimes I feel as if someone is breathing on my cheeks or ears when I'm lying in bed at night. I've also had times when this coldness goes over me for no reason. But a few nights ago I was (again) sitting on my bed when I felt this darkness behind me, almost as if it was about to envelope me but I felt it shrink then go away.

There's been a couple of times when I've been walking to school at about 8 O'clock, when there's rarely anybody around - save for the random car or worker- and I swear I feel somebody walking behind me, I even hear the sound of their shoes clicking and/ or squeaking, I look round and the street is completely empty.

This year I was walking to my friend Orlaith's house so we could go to school together, I just knew I was being followed and could hear this squeaking of some type of a bike, I even seen it at the corner of my eye but it was gone when I tried to get a look at it, another time I was waiting for someone to open the door at Orlaith's house and I heard a crack from the opposite side of the road like someone had stepped on a stick. I looked in the direction of the noise to be met with a brick wall attached to a house, I listened for any other sounds but the road was completely silent.

Later when I was sitting in my friend's living room next to the window facing the brick wall, I saw someone peeking over the brick wall looking at me but of course they disappeared as soon as I saw them, though I did see a flash of brown hair. I'm not sure but I think whoever was staring at me was a girl about my age.

I've heard things too, like people screaming when I was in the shower. Or when I wake I hear someone saying my name or telling me to wake up, this has only happened once but it was still strange.

I've also noticed that my eyes change colour, but not drastically like my eyes turn from brown to blue. I remember when I was about 6 years old, I was staring in the mirror in my Granny's living room and noticing that my eyes were greenish brown. Even my mum recalls me having really shocking green eyes. When I got older I paid less attention to my eyes and just pegged them as a golden brown colour from a few looks in the mirror, the same colour as my mum and granny's.

But on Saturday I kept looking at me eyes in the mirror and noticed that my eyes turned to a dark brown to golden brown to a mixture of brown and green to a faded green colour. I've checked ever since then and my eyes have been changing colours from brown to green.

Also when I go to hospitals to visit a sick relative I always feel ill. It's like all my energy has been drained from me leaving me sick and nauseous. My parents and I always end up going home earlier than planned because I feel ill. I get better after about 5-30 minutes after leaving the hospital.

I get really weird cases of Déjà vu too like when I'm sitting with my friends in the canteen and one of us says something, I'm instantly hit with Déjà vu and then I realise I dreamed it. It always happens when I'm in class and my teachers talking, when I'm reading, when I'm working etc.

I've heard ghosts are attracted to open minded, sensitive, or empathetic people. I'm an open minded person, I don't think as any religion or culture as wrong and I believe in reincarnation, ghosts, spirits etc. Although I'm catholic and most of it goes against my religion.

So I want to know am I psychic, haunted or simply going crazy? I've taken tests and they've said I'm psychic but I want to be told by an actual psychic which quite a lot of you are, NOT a test.

Honestly I'm scared, a lot of these things happen when I'm on my own and I if I am psychic how do I tell my friends and family I'm psychic without being wheeled to the closest asylum? I've told one of my friends that I think I'm psychic but I don't think she believes me.

I highly doubt my family would.

I think the only person who would believe me in my family is my cousin Leah as she's had an imaginary friend called Caroline, who her twin Connor actually saw one night when he woke up before she shrank and disappeared.

But that's it. I've told my mum about most of what's happened to me and she's been shocked but most of the time she brushes it off as my imagination. My mum's an open minded person but I don't think she'd believe me. My dad certainly wouldn't; he's very sceptical about these things. Also what about my Grandparents? My Granny doesn't believe in Psychics- it goes against our religion- but surely she deserves to know?

Please help me!