I was about 5 when I heard my uncle was coming for a visit. They said he had a broken arm. I cried and said I didn't want to see my uncle because I imagined his arm was just hanging there all broken and mangled.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- When i was about 5 I used to believe that Broken Hill was a broken hill. — Saad
- I used to believe that comets were pieces of the Sun that had broken off.— Carmen
- Broken bones meant that your arm or leg was separated from your body.— Kelly Hanson
- My uncle told me that if I didn't wash my ears when I took a bath, corn would start going out of them.— Ebod
- When I was a little girl I used to believe cats were broken because of their moter sound when they purr— Shaune F.
- When I was little I used to think that my uncle lived in a bus shelter.— tigga