When I was in kindergarted, there was an older girl at my school who had no arms due to a birth defect. For some reason, I thought that she used to have arms, but that she had lost them. I thought that if I was wasn't careful, I could lose my arms too. I was terrified, and I held my arms as close to my body as I could at all times. Finally my mother noticed I was acting strange, and she set me straight.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- We used to think that if you ran swinging your arms around, you would run faster. — Christine
- that if I flapped my arms hard enough, I could get airborne.— DeQuendre
- When my grandma was little, her dad would tell her that the freckles on her face and arms were fly crap.Anon
- I used to think that 'testicles' was the word for the arms of a squid or an octopus. — Emily
- I used to think that you would get arrested if you didn't swing your arms when you walked in publicAnon
- I thought Maria Carey's 1998 ballad was 'I'd give my arms' instead of 'I'd give my all'.— Briony Maggs