Whenever I would get goose bumps I believed that my body was growing, expanding ever so slightly. Due to my short stature I resulted to tickling myself to encourage the goose bumps.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that if you lie you really will get lie bumps.Anon
- When my wife was a kid, she used to think that highway speed bumps were for the blind.Anon
- I used to believe that speed bumps were dead bodies that had been paved over.— Natalie
- My older brother told me that speed bumps were really dead people covered in cement.— Trina
- When I was younger I thought I made up a new way to tickle someone--by tickling their stomach.— Amelia
- Since the girls name Jackie is short for Jacqueline, I thought the boys name Jack was short for JackalAnon