For many years I believed something my sister told me. She told me that in Paris a long time ago they never put mentally ill people in mental hospitals but just threw them into the river. Hence the mentally ill were called "In Seine", and that is the origin of our word "insane"
A childhood belief about being ill
others believed things like this
- I thought being mentally challenged meant you couldn't do any challenges with peopleAnon
- We told our little sister that she had a long bushy tail and she fully believed us for ages!!Anon
- I used to think that the river police were there to stop naughty people from pulling the plug out.— Linda
- I used to believe that a penis was called a bobby because my mum told me... I believed this until I was 15.— Patricia
- When I was a child my Grandma told me if I threw food on the fire I was feeding the devil— Anthony P.
- my mom told my sister and I that if you swallow gum, it won't leave ur stomach for 7 years.— Victoria