When my father was driving my mother and me in our car he would frequently take off his glasses and hand them to my mother and ask her to clean them. This terrified me. I thought that when you wore glasses you were literally blind when you took them off.
A childhood belief about cars
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that people who wore glasses were blind and could only see when they had their glasses on. Anon
- I used to believe that if you were blind you could wear glasses and you'd be able to see again— Jane
- my sister used to believe that glasses were for blind people.— Lauren
- I used to believe that people who wore glasses were very smart.— Anonymous
- I used to think that Stevie Wonder was Ray Charles son. Must have been the glasses....— beatrix
- I used to believe that people who wear glasses did had a second brain!— Onessa