when i was younger i used to always make weird faces at my sisters and cousins(e.i crossing my eyes, etc.) and my parents used to tell me that if i kept making faces that it would stay like that forever.
A childhood belief about appearance

others believed things like this
- I used to think wall outlets looked like little faces (eyes and mouth), and so I would talk to them sometimes!— EJ
- i used to believe the news readers on TV could see us and i'd make funny faces to try to "distract" themAnon
- when I was young I used to believe if I squinted my eyes and it was windy my eyes would stay like this forever— Jeanne
- if i rolles my eyes, it would stay like that foreverAnon
- when i was little, i used to think that cars had faces and talked to eachother in the parking lot.— Whitney
- I once asked my dad why Pugs had flat faces. He responded "because they ran into a wall"...— Kristy