My brother kindly told me that I was so ugly my parents had to pay people to act behind 'mirrors' everywhere I went so that I would have a normal life and not know that I was hideously ugly. He also told me this was why our family was poor.
A childhood belief about appearance

others believed things like this
- I used to think it was true that only ugly girls poop and I thought I was an ugly girl because I poopedAnon
- My mom always told me if I made an ugly face it would stay that way forever.Anon
- When i was a kid i used to think that all ugly people were imported from space haha!!!!!— Abbey Jackman Mulligan
- I used to believe cows were ugly horses— Marlene
- We had an antique lamp that I thought was hideous and for years I thought "Art Deco" was a synonym for ugly.Anon
- one of my friend's was told by his father that if you didn't turn mirrors over the reflection would run out.— pri