When I was about 8, I was climbing in a maple tree in the yard. Then I saw that some of the leaves had red bumps on them. I thought that the disease could be contaigous from trees to people. I was so scared that I jumped out of the tree without looking down.
A childhood belief about plants

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that broccoli grew on trees. It looks like a tree, so it made sense, right?— Catherine...
- I thought if you took some candy and buried in the yard, you would grow a candy tree.Anon
- When I was five, I believed God was big as a tree, a tree being the biggest thing I could convieve of.
— Chris - I used to believe that the Doller Tree store was an actual tree.Anon
- I used to think that partridge in a pear tree was "cartridge" in a pear tree(christmas song)— Erica
- I used to believe that all old people got the disease "OLD TIMERS DISEASE" Instead of alzheimers disease :D— MollyJohnson