When I was less than six months old, there was a very powerful tornado that passed within a mile of my house. my mom told me that she had to hide with me under the dining room table. Since then i've had a very bad almost phobic fear of tornadoes. Until i got my facts straight i thought they could just pop up and kill me if i went outside in the dark. i also thought one lived in my bedroom corner and another under my bed. seeing the movie twister when i was 7 did not help and to this day i freak out completely when a bad storm comes.
A childhood belief about disasters
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that a ghost lived under my bed and that a giant lived under our dining room table.— nameless
- I used to think that tornadoes were giant tomatoes that would sit on top of your house until everyone died.— Maggie
- I used to believe that tornadoes were spinning jack-o-lanterns in the air bent on destroying my house.Anon
- I had a fear of seeing a person in the corner of the mirror(most of the time a morlock)— Shane
- When i was little i used to believe that i could suck up a tornado in a vaccuum if it came in my house.Anon
- I knew lightning could come in through my bedroom window and kill me.
— Cyn