when my hand or foot got tingly, my mom told me it had "fallen asleep". So I would cover it with a blanket to let it rest.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I thought a "fallen soldier" was one who'd tripped and fallen during a battle.Anon
- I was told that if one doesn't cover their mouth when yawning that their soul would escape.Anon
- I used to belive that if i put my foot in my mouth, I would get foot-and-mouth illness— Emily Sathrota
- I used to think that the fog was a cloud that had died and fallen to the earth.— Cici
- When I was a small girl, I used to believe black men had fallen into chocolate. — elodie, French student in eighth grade
- I used to believe that old black Bananna skins were dogs lips that had fallen off.— Tracey Cross