My mother left me in the car while she quickly went into a store. I noticed posted on the shop-window "Help Wanted". I immediately became terrified for my life, figuring they needed help to find a wanted criminal in the area.
A childhood belief about criminals
others believed things like this
- I thought that asylum seekers were people who were mad and wanted to find an asylum.— Little Penguin
- I used to believe that I really COULD be anything I wanted to be when I grew up. I wanted to be a unicorn. Anon
- Until I was about 11 or 12 I thought that "prostitute" referred to a female criminal.Anon
- I used to think that when a cat would rub up against me, that it wanted me to get out of its way...Anon
- i used think that when i would grow up that i could become a cat if i wanted to.— may ray
- I used to believe that I was the only person in the world who wanted to be the other sex.— Susan Davis