When I was a really little kid, and whenever I got my older sister mad, she would always point the remote control at me and say "I'm turning you off!" I would run around the room crying for hours because i thought i was turned off and no one could see me like when you turned the t.v. off. A couple days after screaming, someone else would use the remote to turn on the t.v. I wondered if when they turned the t.v. on, if they could see me again. It has been ten years, and I still fear turning off the t.v with the remote.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the remote control could control all the things in my house, including my dog.— Felipe
- I thought that cruise control was like autopilot i.e the car would just drive itself if you turned it on— Yqatuba
- as a kid, i was told by my older cousins that i wasnt human until i turned 7 years old.— twk
- when i was little i thought every time i left the room my parents turned into aliensAnon
- That boys turned into women when they became adults and girls turned into men when they became adults. Anon
- I used to believe that you could not make the car turn left or right without turning the blinker on.— Christy Shane