When my brothers and I used to play as kids and one of us got shot we would play dead with our arms out streached and our feet crossed. We grew up catholic and the only dead person we had ever seen was Jesus on the cross.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I used to think God and Jesus were the same person. And I grew up Catholic.— Jackie Mullinix/st louis
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- My parents told me that Jesus visited Santa Claus when he was dead for three days. — Rick Hamell
- I use to think mountains were dead dinosaurs and grass grew over it.— Tara
- I used to think that "cross-eyed" meant that people had X's for eyes, like dead people in cartoons.— Tim
- I thought that when you went over a speedbumb it was a dead person who had been hit by a car!Anon