When I was growing up in Hawaii I had never seen snow -- except in picture books about snowy days and folded paper cutouts of snowflakes in school. As a result I was convinced that snowflakes were each as big as your hand, and that kids on the mainand spent all their time comparing them to see if any two were ever exactly alike.
A childhood belief about weather
others believed things like this
- i was convinced that snow was pink, i was devastated the first i saw real snow.Anon
- Brown or otherwise non-white snow was snowman poop. My kids believe it too!— Dellio
- When I was 5 years old, I used to believe Poland was snowy and cold all year round, like the North Pole. — Sara
- I was convinced that paper could only be made out of Birch trees (because they had white bark).Anon
- I didn't quite grasp the concept of time zones, and thought that Chinese kids went to school at night.— Giselle
- Like most kids growing up, I believed there was an upside-down word on the other side of the mirror.— Taylor (14)