I am a 'normal' 46 yr old woman; I am no different from you except I am aware of my spiritual abilities.
Well like so many other mediums and psychics, I have been aware of my 'differences’ since childhood, though again, like so many of us I didn't have an understanding of what it was, except that at times it was a little scary.
I was always very sensitive to everything going on around me from others moods to how people were feeling physically. As a teenager I used to write a lot of poetry and now I know that these words were channeled to me from a higher source.
After a frightening experience when I was 15, I pretty much shut down my awareness as I didn't know how to control it, though when I became a nurse I was always very connected to my patients pain and knew instantly if someone had died- even if I was not at work. I could feel the spirit leaving.