You know when you couldn't wear your clothes any more because they got too small for you? I used to think that the clothes actually did get smaller - not that I got bigger!
I've figured it out now, though...
A childhood belief about appearance

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that clothes got smaller if you didn't wear them very often.Anon
- I used to believe that my clothes were shrinking not that I was growing.— Joann
- I used to think that the clothes in the thrift store were new— Ellie
- I used to believe that my dogs diet was clothes, because that was all I ever saw him eating— kay
- I believe that it would rain when God would be having a shower or washing his clothes.— Karina
- that creases in clothes would pinch your skin — katy