As a kid, when I was first told that I would grow, outgrow my clothes, and need nwe ones, it was a disquieting and fearsome prospect. I envisioned that one day I would be taken to a clothing store naked because I'd outgrown my old clothes and couldn't wear them anymore.
A childhood belief about appearance

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that clothes got smaller if you didn't wear them very often.Anon
- I used to think that the clothes in the thrift store were new— Ellie
- that....I do not grow old (in size)...rather my clothes and shoes shrink..— mayank
- my mom told me that if i went inside the dresses at the clothing store, the dress would eat me...Anon
- I used to believe that my clothes were shrinking not that I was growing.— Joann
- I used to believe that my dogs diet was clothes, because that was all I ever saw him eating— kay