I used to think "birthmarks" or "beauty marks" were just a polite term for cancer, and if I looked at someone with a birthmark, I would catch cancer and get very sick and die
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that beauty marks (freckels) were Butterfly bites!— Jolene
- I used to believe that you could get cancer from looking in the microwave while it was running.— Kayla
- I use to believe that when I lost hair that I had cancerAnon
- I use to believe that if my hair fell out I had cancer, and was most likely going to die soon. — Luca
- I used to believe that it was impossible to survive cancer.Anon
- I used To believe that if you picked your freckles you would get skin cancer— Janella