I used to believe that shoes grew along with you, so as you got bigger your shoes would too. I also thought the same thing about clothes. I remember crying for hours and hours one time because my shoes didn't fit and I though I had broken them or stopped them from growing somehow.
A childhood belief about appearance

others believed things like this
- that....I do not grow old (in size)...rather my clothes and shoes shrink..— mayank
- I used to think you couldn't die if you didn't have shoes on. Coincidentally, so did one of my friends.— Casey
- I have a cousin who thought he could run faster when he got new shoes .. Anon
- I used to think that it was against the law to drive a car without shoes on. It isn't— Pamela
- Red shoes make you run faster. — Ann B.
- i use to beleive that horseraddish came from horses shoesAnon