Like many children are told, I thought that if you made a face for too long your face would freeze like that.
One night, I went to my parents crying as I was afraid to go to sleep because I thought if I fell asleep, I'd close my mouth and it would stick like that and I'd suffocate.
A childhood belief about appearance
others believed things like this
- i thought the line "saving my face" from the KT Tunstall song of the same name was "shaving my face"Anon
- I used to believe that if the wind changed when you were pulling your face that you would stick like that— Farino
- If you pulled a face, and the clock struck on the hour, your face would stay in that position.— Jo V...NL
- My mom always told me if I made an ugly face it would stay that way forever.Anon
- My uncle harry has a very long beard and a hariy face. I used to think he was a wizard.Anon
- I thought god looked like the face on the play-doh can!— Jonathan Franz