When I was around the age of seven I recall the television report outlining the life and death of the actor who played Ronald McDonald. I was terrified because before I heard this I never thought anybody I knew would actually die, and I felt as if I knew Ronald. For the next couple of years I feared death and thought for sure I would die in my sleep.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I long believed that Ronald Reagan was Ronald McDonald's brother. And I thought it made him more impressive!— JB
- Before I knew about death, I used to think people turned back into babies again after they got old. Anon
- I used to think that Margeret Thatcher was married to Ronald Reagan, because they were always on tv together!— Nat
- When I was little, I used to believe that my Barbie's would come to life while I was asleep to plot my death!— Kimbre
- I used to believe that "Earwigs lived in your ears", scared
me to death for years.— Will Chapman - I thought that when I got older "they" would invent a cure for death and I could live forever.— wishful thinking