When I was very little, my older sister told me over and over again that my parents had found me in a huge tree stump that was a little distance from our house. I didn't like that idea too much because I visited the stump quite often & all I could see there was wood rot and bugs. It made my skin crawl to think that I was once in there too somehow... but the big question then was what form was I in at that time? My conclusion was that I must've started off as a small red bug that somehow got transformed after my family spotted me and took me home! Sharing that story with my children through the years (all 50 of them... years, of course) has always given us a great chuckle.
A childhood belief about reproduction
others believed things like this
- I used to think tree-nuts (especially almonds) were made of wood. — Josh
- My older brother once told me that Aussie shampoo was made from kangaroo pee. I avoided using it for years!— Annie
- i used to believe that black wood ear
came from the skin of the bats— JULIE - I used to belief sloths lived in trees outside my childhood home. My older sister told me so.Anon
- I used to think that when you got like a twitching eye or something, it was little bugs under my skin.Anon
- My oldest sister is 15 years my senior. I used to think that she was older than my mom.— Callie