I had heard that people got their ears pierced by having the earring shot through their ear (with a gun of some sort). I thought that they stood you against the wall, took careful aim ... and if they missed, that was how you wound up with nose or eyebrow piercings.
A childhood belief about appearance
others believed things like this
- For some reason until I was about 10 I used to believe that the dentist pierced your ears.— Kendall.XxX
- I used to believe that the people who got shot in TV shows where people who wanted to die.Anon
- I used to believe that when people got shot in the head that their heads would blow up. — Emily
- I heard a mother in the street tell her young son not to pick his nose...because his head would cave in. — Ruby
- I used to believe when I was a child that when I was injured, the wound would never be repaired or cured.— solid
- When I was little ,I used to believe that deaf people didn't have ears.— rainbow