i used to believe that i could fly. i could do this by jumping in the air and doing breaststoke. i used to jump off sofas and try to do this. it never worked. someone was watching me and it doesn't work when someone's looking.
perculiar really - why did i never try front crawl? that might work...
splat.
A childhood belief about special powers

others believed things like this
- My uncle once said that elves were really badchildren made to work in santa's work shop— Some guy
- When I was little I believed little men and little women worked inside my body to make everything work.— Ashley
- i used to believe that if i didn't work at school, i would have donkey ears, so now i work hard !!!— denis
- I used to believe there was a number "eleventeen". I could never quite work out where it went, though.— Matthew
- I thought that going to work was a lot like going to kindergarten. — A Wild Cowgirl
- i used to believe that scaffolding was used to support buildings when they were having work on them.Anon