When I was little and I laid on my mother's bed with the thermometer in my tushy, I used to picture little men inside me pushing the mercury up according to how much temperature I had.
A childhood belief about being ill

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that cows laid beef, like the way chickens laid eggsAnon
- I used to beleive Freddy Mercury was a wrestler— Owain
- When I was 6 or 7 years old, I absolutely believed that if a thermometer broke--the world would end. — Suzi
- I used to believe that if you turned the thermastat temperature above 70 degrees that everything would melt.Anon
- I used to believe that "carpooling" meant you were outside the car and pushing/pulling it to your destination.Anon
- I used to believe my dad could honk the car horn by pushing on a mysterious spot on the roof of the car.— sarah b