I used to believe that any person or animal that I drew might come alive and get angry at me (for drawing it badly?) Somehow, I alleviated my worry by always drawing the mouth second-to-last (so that it couldn't complain) and the eyes last (so that it couldn't see what I was doing until the last possible second).
A childhood belief about imaginary friends

others believed things like this
- i believed there were little men in my etch a sketch that did the drawing— now a mom
- I used to believe that rounding a number meant drawing a circle around it.Anon
- I can remember thinking that is I hid my eyes, and couldn't see anybody that they couldn't see me.Anon
- I used to think that if I closed my eyes other people couldn't see me.Anon
- I used to believe anon was a person and couldn't believe he had written so many poems— Helena
- i though that the man and woman couldn't really have babies until marriage,lmao,what a stupid person i was— what a stupid