When I was 3 or 4 my parents gave me a toy microscope which projected the magnified images on the wall. The microscope had "20000x magnification" written on it. I actually believed it was true...a few years later (around 4th grade) my mum took me to buy a real scope...
I thought they were trying to cheat me, when they showed me a 100x scope, and actually said that the other one I had at home was 20000x!
A childhood belief about technology
others believed things like this
- In first grade a boy told me that he could see girls naked with his microscope lens. I beleived it for years.— Jeanette
- I thought my parents had written "Don't Worry, Be Happy".Anon
- I used to think that when a movie was 'based on a true story' it was happening for real then and there— Tom
- Until I was about 12 years old I believed that homeless people were made up by my parents to scare me.— Angela B.
- when I was a child I had never seen Jennifer Lopez written down so I thought her name was Jenny Ferlopez x)— Cath
- Until I tried it in 3rd grade, my parents told me that if I ate paper my poop would come out in packages.— The Mailman