I used to believe that every itch in my body was the same itch and it just moved. I thought that if you ignored it long enough, it would move to someone else, and you would be rid of the itch forever. I used to torture myself for hours refusing to scratch my itches.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that ants walked inside your body and that's what caused an itch.Anon
- i used to believe that when i had an itch or a tickle, it was because there were ants crawling beneath my skin— Willa
- I used to believe that if I scratched one side of my body I had to
scratch the other to be "even".— Greg - I used to think that when you made food 'from scratch', that scratch was an ingredient like starch.— Aynsleigh
- I thought that psychological torture involved forcing people to watch really sad movies!— Elviessa
- I used to beleive that if I picked my nose the boogie monster would visit me in the night + torture me— gingalinga