My first day at school was really traumatic, I clinged onto my mother's skirt so that she wouldn't leave. She turned to me and said "you'd better get used to it because you're here for the next eighteen years". I really thought that I wouldn't see her again for eighteen years.....
A childhood belief about classes

others believed things like this
- I thought that my parents chose my cousins, and was upset when my mother wouldn't let me add one.Anon
- My mother told me when i was 5 that Santa wouldn't come if i kept sucking my thumb. — Traumatized
- my mom told my sister and I that if you swallow gum, it won't leave ur stomach for 7 years.— Victoria
- I used to think spiders came from rosebuds. Don't ask. It was a traumatic experience.— Zog
- I thought that wars had to last four years... just like high school and college.— A. Falk
- When I was little I thought grown ups could fly but wouldn't tell me about it or teach me until I got older.— James the Great