When I was seven, one of my friends had only one arm (she was born this way). I used to believe that there must be some way - magic or medicine - to make her other arm grow normal overnight.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- How could Baby Jesus be born on Dec 25th, get tall, grow a beard and then die, all by Easter. Whew!— Joe
- That if you wet a sweet wrap and put it in the freezer overnight, you'd get chewing gum.— Roxie van Renbsurg
- that a piece of liver in your fridge if left overnight would wrap itself around a bottle of milkAnon
- I used to honestly think that Smarties were medicine.Anon
- I thought Tic-Tacs were medicine until I was 11 years old.Anon
- I used to believe that drinking cups of viniger would make you grow big and strong— en