I used to think that growing pains meant that a tomato plant was growing in your stomach.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you swallowed cherry pits, you would have a tree growing in your stomach.— porkchop
- My dad always told me never to swallow the pips from apples because trees would start growing in my stomach!!— ALISON W
- I used to think that a tornado was a tomato and lots of tomato juice would got flying around.— sam
- I used to beleive that all pains were headaches. So for example, I had headaches in my stomach, legs and arms.— James
- I used to believe that if I ate a fruit's seeds, a plant would grow in my stomach.— Natalia Castillejo
- I used to believe that my clothes were shrinking not that I was growing.— Joann