When I was like 8 or 9 I would watch TV and see those commercials for acne care. My brother was about 14 and he had pimples and I remember hoping that by the time I hit puberty and got pimples that they would still make that kind of stuff (I thought it was just a fad that would go away!)
A childhood belief about adverts
others believed things like this
- I once was told that ONLY virgins get acne. After sex, no new pimples grow. I believed that.— MD Caruso
- That by drinking a daily dose of buttermilk one would clean the blood thereby avoiding ACNE— Richard in Durham
- my brother used to think a serial killer was someone that put nails and stuff in your cereal. lol :)Anon
- I used to believe that circuncision was a natural process and that the foreskin fell off during puberty.— Yure
- When I was younger I thought that if I ate Gusher's, my head would turn into fruit, like in the commercialsAnon
- i used to watch doctor who and every time i saw a darlic i wet myself literally.— Dan Barber