I am paranoid ever since I was young, so my older sister used to tell me that the government used to watch you through the television and listen through the smoke detector. You have no idea how many candles I had to blow out and how many times I yelled at my mother to turn off the television.
A childhood belief about being watched

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that I could jump through the television and be where the people were on television.— Ash
- I used to believe that the people inside the television could see you. Anon
- I used to believe that someone, somewhere in the world was watching me on their television.— Liz
- I used to believe the people of television were talking to me alone !— Margaux, a French student in eighth grade
- I used to believe that people on television speak to me & look at me ! — Macy
- I used to believe that you could break open the Television and get the toys— Certeria