i remember as a child i had received a sunburn and the resulting peeling became scary. i thought the peeling would continue until i looked like a halloween skeleton.
A childhood belief about skin
others believed things like this
- That a satchel was a skeleton, and I would have to wear a skeleton on my back for school!Anon
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- I used to believe that if I went down the stairs slowly a red eyed skeleton would come and run after me.— Melly2bee
- i used to think that coloured people had the same colour skeletonAnon
- I used to believe that when people died, their bodies would immediately turn in to a skeleton— fv
- I once believed that if I wore my Halloween costume to bed, I'd wake up as the actual thing.— Sarah