When I was about 10, my best friend at the time told me about her older brother's biggest fear. He was terrified of his door handle(!) He called it 'Skin' and thought it was going to kill him.
I found this incredibly funny, which was pretty insensitive of me, looking back!
A childhood belief about around the house
others believed things like this
- Looking back at it, the belief that dogs eat cats is a pretty funny idea. I used to believe it myself.Anon
- My sibs and I thought that the screen door was called the "scream door" so Mom could yell at us through it. — Kyle
- My brother (who was 6 at the time) would never flush the toilet in fear of our new house being blown up! Anon
- When i was little my older brother said rocks grew in your poop, so i went digging and never found anyAnon
- a friend of my little sister's had 4 older brothers, so she thought that when you got older you grew a penis!Anon
- My friend told me that if you sucked your thumb, your skin would get all mushy and your thumb would fall off.— Lauren