When i was wee i thought i could get a suntan from a radiator... so i used to sit in front of one for hours and when my back got all red i thought i was sun burned... i was a strange child...
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- I thought that I could get a suntan if I stood really close to a fire for long enough.— Mat
- I thought firefighters were really "firefires," and burned houses down insted of putting them out.Anon
- My mother told me that if I lay too close to our electric radiator (heater) my brains would melt.
— robyn c. - In kindergarden my friend told me that there were 24 hours in the day and 15 hours in the night.— Cari
- I used to believe that when you had cancer, your bottom would be in front instead of in back. Anon
- I thought that days had 100 hours in them. Very surprised to hear there were only 24.— Cassiopeia