I was always told that any berry in the woods was totally poisonous, but I eventually lived dangerously and ate wild raspberries without letting my parents or other adults see. I'm still alive!
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- Adults lived in continuous perfect harmony with each other.— Wangchuk
- My older sister told me squirrels were poisonous, and I believed her until I was 9.— Jenni
- That adults came into the world as adults and were never childrenAnon
- That boys turned into women when they became adults and girls turned into men when they became adults. Anon
- I totally believed my siblings when they told me the family was aliens and had a space ship in the garage.— cully
- that the green bit of cucumbers was poisonousAnon