Once, in fourth grade, I looked in the bathroom mirror and noticed several small, hardly-visible black dots on my upper lip. I got scared and thought I was growing a beard. Then, I figured outthat they were actually blackheads.
A childhood belief about appearance
others believed things like this
- I used to think that when somebody farted, little black dots came out that looked like pepper specks.— Jade
- I used to believe that dot-to-dots were called 'doctor dots'.— Jim
- Like most kids growing up, I believed there was an upside-down word on the other side of the mirror.— Taylor (14)
- I used to believe that there was a person in the mirror who looked exactly like meAnon
- I used to think that if I looked in a mirror for over 5 mins I would dissapere to Narnia!— Quako
- I believed that if I looked too long in the mirror admiring myself the Devil would appear.— Paul Elletson