When I was a little girl, my big sis got the flu. For no reason except my own strangeness, I thought that "getting the flu" actually meant having a feather inside your foot. I thought this until I got the flu, and my mum told me the truth.
A childhood belief about being ill
others believed things like this
- When I was young I used to believe for some reason that being asthmatic meant you were born with no lungs.Anon
- I used to belive that if i put my foot in my mouth, I would get foot-and-mouth illness— Emily Sathrota
- When I was younger, I saw Madonna's video for "Material Girl". I thought she was singing "I'm a Cheerio Girl"!— Greg
- I always thought instead of saying "Im a material girl" Madonna was saying "Im a cheerio girl".— Tiffany
- I used to think cut and paste meant there were scissors and glue inside the computer!Anon
- Someone told me People and fish went to the same place.I thought they meant humans get flushed— MrK