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The Doctor was born on [[Gallifrey]], home [[planet]] of the [[Time Lord]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'', ''[[The Time Warrior (TV story)|The Time Warrior]]'', ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') "the oldest and most mighty race in the universe", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'')  on the Holiday of [[Otherstide]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (audio story)|Cold Fusion]]'') under a name that he concealed in despair. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code]]'') He was born under the sign of Crossed Computers, the symbol of the maternity service, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Creature from the Pit (TV story)|The Creature from the Pit]]'') with [[Clara Oswald]] also telling [[Robin Hood]] that the Doctor was born "into wealth and privilege". ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot of Sherwood (TV story)|Robot of Sherwood]]'')

According to one account, the Doctor was a genetic [[reincarnation]] of [[the Other]], and was [[loom]]ed into the [[House of Lungbarrow]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') in the form of a small child. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'') The [[Fifth Doctor]] recounted his birth to [[Patience (Cold Fusion)|Patience]], telling her that he was "born at Otherstide through the Loom of the [[House of Lungbarrow]] in Southern Gallifrey." ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (audio story)|Cold Fusion]]'') As the [[Eleventh Doctor]] told [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]], he slept in [[The Doctor's cot|a cot]] as an infant. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'')

The Doctor stated he had [[The Doctor's mother|a mother]] and [[The Doctor's father|father]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') as well as a family ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen (TV story)|The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'') and childhood, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') but also confessed his uncertainty on whether his family was real or a dream. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural]]'') He had at least one brother, [[Irving Braxiatel]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Tears of the Oracle (novel)|Tears of the Oracle]]'') and an uncle. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]'') In his [[Eighth Doctor|eighth incarnation]], the Doctor claimed that he was half-[[human]] on his mother's side, ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') but later confessed it to be a ruse to trick {{Roberts}}, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Forgotten (comic story)|The Forgotten]]'') with his eleventh incarnation identifying his mother as a Time Lord. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Comfort of the Good (comic story)|The Comfort of the Good]]'')  

According to his [[Third Doctor|third incarnation]], the Doctor lived in a "house that was perched halfway up the top of a mountain" in the mountains of South Gallifrey. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'', ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'') Known as the [[House of Lungbarrow]], this house was one of the Ancient Oldblood Houses and overlooked the [[Cadonflood River]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'') He grew up in Lungburrow with his family. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'', ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') A lonely and depressed youth, the Doctor did not get along with his family, being bullied by many of his cousins, who would call him cruel names to reflect the fact that the Doctor had been loomed with a belly button. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'')

During his childhood, the Doctor would leave his house, going to sleep in a [[Barn (The Day of the Doctor)|barn]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'') located in the [[Drylands]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') where he would weep over his fears, ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'') and was the "only child left out in the cold". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Child (TV story)|The Empty Child]]'') When [[Madame de Pompadour]] read the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s mind, she said he was "such a lonely little boy." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)|The Girl in the Fireplace]]'') He had at least two imaginary friends, named [[Binker]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Abandoned (audio story)|The Abandoned]]'') and [[Mandrake (The Widow's Assassin)|Mandrake]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Widow's Assassin (audio story)|The Widow's Assassin]]'')

As a [[Time Tot]], the Doctor played [[hide-and-seek]] with [[the Rani]], with his [[Ninth Doctor|ninth incarnation]] recalling that his skill at finding her "drove [her] nuts". He held the Time-Tot hide and seek championship for forty-two years in a row. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Weapons of Past Destruction (comic story)|Weapons of Past Destruction]]'') He also believed [[human]]s to be a myth as a Time Tot. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shining Man (novel)|The Shining Man]]'')

The Doctor wanted to be an explorer when he was young, but because the Time Lords had already explored every time and place, he didn't believe there was any point to him becoming an explorer too. He then found a reason and whenever he felt hopeless, he remembered that reason. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Frozen Wastes (short story)|The Frozen Wastes]]'') Despite this, the Doctor would later claim to have been a pioneer amongst his people, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Rescue (episode)|The Rescue]]'') due to the subconscious memory of his life as [[the Other]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'', ''[[Lungbarrow (novel)|Lungbarrow]]'')

At some point in his youth, the Doctor became addicted to using [[vortex manipulator]]s. The [[Eleventh Doctor]] once described his past self as "40-a-day man". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Space in Dimension Relative and Time (comic story)|Space in Dimension Relative and Time]]'')