I thought that you could stop your heart and die if you hit yourself on the chest hard enough. This of course made me fear for the life of anybody impersonating Tarzan or a Gorilla of some sort.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I used to think that if a gorilla pounded its chest it liked you.Anon
- I thought “guerrilla tactics” meant fighting like a gorilla— beating your chest and that sort of thing.— Kai
- When I was in elementary school, I believed my heart moved across my chest throughout the day.— Allison
- My mum always told me to stop chewing my hair or else i would get a hairy chest! hee, hee! x— Kirsty
- I still believe that if I really concentrate, I can stop my heart from beating.— Patrick
- I used to believe that you shouldn't swallow gum because it would stick to you heart and make it stop beating.Anon