this is not me but a friend of mine: I think she got it when she was little. she thinks that ostriches would come and peck her eyes out whenever she saw them. she still thinks that.
A childhood belief about birds

others believed things like this
- My brothers friend still thinks he will be a kangaroo when he grows up and he's 9!!!!!— Jane Rom
- My five-year-old cousin thinks that his parents purchased him from Wal-Mart.Anon
- My friend's sister believed the lyrics to Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" were "Fog on the dinasaurs mine all mine"— Suzanne
- i used 2 think ostriches didnt have wings— venti
- When I was little my friend told me that if you snease with your eyes open you eyes will fall out!Anon
- i, too, thought my grandma made up the bushel and a peck song. :)— nessa