In our family, it just so happened that the girls had brown eyes and the boys had blue eyes. I was sure that that was how you could tell if one was a boy or a girl.
A childhood belief about eyes
others believed things like this
- I was born brunette with brown eyes and dark hair, i thought people with blue eyes, had water in them.Anon
- I used to believe that my eyes were brown because I ate too much chocolate. Thanks, Dad!— Christine
- i used to believe that people with blue or green eyes saw that certain color— mellactica
- Drinking coffee before your 12 yrs, old will make the white in your eyes turn brown.— dawn b.
- When I was little my friend told me that if you snease with your eyes open you eyes will fall out!Anon
- 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