When I was 5, I asked my mom why we had blood and she told me it takes the food to all the parts of our bodies. I had an image of little red stick figures in tubes pushing whole peas through my body for a long time!
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- When I was in preschool, the class bully told me that peas were actully cow boogers. Still won't eat peas.— Ren
- I was told when I was little that eating too much salt on your food would "dry up your blood".Anon
- I used to think for a very long time, that spam was left over animal parts with salt.— Ebony
- I used to believe lepers came from Ireland. Like leprechauns, only with less body parts.Anon
- I used to think that bodily tissues were kleenex sheets that grew in certain parts of your body.Anon
- I used to believe that a funeral organist was the person who collected the body parts of the deadAnon