Once, when I was about four, I saw a really fat kid on Reading Rainbow, and told my mom I thought he was fat. My mom told me not to say that, because people in the TV could hear everything you say. For three years, whenever a friend said something bad about a person or show on the TV, I would tell them that the actors' feelings would be hurt, because they could hear you. I finally found out the truth, when I told this to a friend when her mother was in the room, and the mom laughed and explained that they couldn't hear us, but that didn't mean we should say rude things about them.
A childhood belief about being watched
others believed things like this
- When i was about 5 years old, i used to believe that everything i thought people could hear!Anon
- The first time I hear about a serial killer, I laughed. You can't kill cereal. It's not alive.Anon
- When I was five or six, I was worried that I'd lost my heart because I didn't hear it beating.Anon
- Olivia Newton John did sing let me hear your budgie talk! didn't she— J Scull
- I thought that days had 100 hours in them. Very surprised to hear there were only 24.— Cassiopeia
- My friend's mom told my friend's little sister thatI when a dog died, it went to a retirement home.— ellen