When i was about 6ish, i fell off my bike and grazed my knee then i insisted on crawling around on the concrete. My mum asked me what i was doing and i told her i was looking for my skin!
A childhood belief about being ill

others believed things like this
- When I was a little kid and fell down and skin my knee, I used to think I was skinning my kidney.— G. Dedrick
- i used to believe that when i had an itch or a tickle, it was because there were ants crawling beneath my skin— Willa
- I used the scar on my dads leg was a shark bite when in fact he fell off his bike when he was a child— Wendy Murray
- I used to think that your knee cap was called your knee ball.— Erika
- I used to believe my father when he told me that if I sat on cold concrete I would get hemorrhoids.Anon
- my brother told me that if i ride my bike with my mouth open i will swallow my tounge. Anon