How Do People Discover They Are Mediums?

Thanks Domus. I appreciate that I have found this site also. :) 

I am a third generation clairvoyant and I have always been brought up with this principal.  What a shame :(

Studying mediums for 40 years I have found that most evolve slowly. There is usually a critical moment in time when things change markedly. This is often accompanied by a signature event in the potential medium's life and it not infrequently is traumatic.

Anomalous Phenomena is Unexplained not Impossible
Psi is Subtle not Absolute
Anything is possible, it's all a matter of Probability

From my experience and the mediums/clairvoyants I have spoken to over the years I would have to say that I agree with you PhenomInvestigator.  I wonder if we could post an anonymous questionnaire for people who believe they have an ability and look for similarities in the answers.

 Anyone hear about the 'Twitter Experiment'? It's in the lastest New Scientist, really interesting stuff. 

Nothing happened to me ever until I moved up north to Salford from Northampton. The house is haunted and I believe there is some sort of 'entrance' at the bottom of the stairs. Lots of stuff has happened here. The 1st 2 years were very 'noisy'. Everyone who lived here had stuff happen to them, usually when they were in bed!

Then I got ill. I had panic attacks and was off work for a year. When I got better I found I was seeing and hearing stuff EVERYWHERE, at work, while driving, in friends houses, in bed etc. I have lots of out of the corner of my eye people who aren't there when I look straight at them, though I can see there whole bodies and faces when not looking straight at them. I hear things, I experienced invisible cobwebs over my face that crackled, heard voices in rooms where there's no one in them, got 5 quite deep scratches on my back while in my bedroom on my own, heard voices under my bed, had someone sit on the bed while I was wide awake, heard people walking about in a room above that is empty and 3 weeks ago my bedroom lit up with a white light for half a second at 1am, and there was NOTHING for a light like that to come from. There was no source of the light, the room just lit up! It was bewildering!

It comes and goes. Sometimes stuff happens every other day, sometimes there's nothing for a year. But now I've got a grip on what it is and I realised I'm not going mad (I was at the brink of going to the Doctors!) it doesn't scare me at all. It fascinates me. They are only people that used to be alive. And I will be what they are when I shed this skin I'm in now. As I said in another thread, it's THE best thing to happen to me. Now I'm not scared of dying, I'm 99% sure that there IS something else.

I've been to the Spiritualist Church and a few times meduims have spoke to me and said that they can tell I'm sensitive and that I have the potential to be doing the same work as them. I just haven't found a way yet to develop it yet. Work is getting in the way of the 'Open Circles' round here that I need to attend to start the development, which is a tad frustrating, I feel I've been given a taste of this gift and just want to get going and developing it.

do i have a gift?

whenever i go out or am at home my neck tingles when i walk through doors it is weird also i see things out the corner of my eye it is weird some times i feel weird i when i see churches and graveyards

There seems to be a pattern suggesting mediums are born into families containing other mediums. Often a parent or grandparent will help them discover.