I believed that I could "tightrope walk" across the footboard of my bed, without falling, if I held in each hand one of the plaster angel plagues my aunt made me. I fell and broke the angels.
A childhood belief about special powers

others believed things like this
- When i was little i believed that clouds were cotton candy that angels lived in and rain was angel tears— Missy
- I used to believe that sattelite dishes were used to shot down falling meteors that fell to earth.Anon
- my aunt used to tell me that pinapples made your eyebrows grow. i believed it till i was about 10.— Anna
- My teacher held out a hand to say, "stop" but I thought she wanted a high-five.Anon
- I used to believe that when the sky was pink, late at the afternoon, the angels made cookies!— Bella
- I used to believe that when people broke bones, doctors would give them a new part of the body they broke. — Kelly