I used to believe (and I'm dead serious when I say this) that your armpits would bleed the day you became a woman. Every morning before I would go to school. I would check my armpits to see if they were bleeding, and I would be so paranoid sitting in class thinking 'What if I start bleeding?!'
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- When I was a child, I used to believe that armpits were private parts— Duda Gueiros
- When I was in Kindergarten I was told if I picked my nose my nose will go into eternal bleeding— Sam
- When I was really young I used to think that dead bodies wouldn't start rotting until they were buried.— Katherine
- I used to think my elementary school gym teacher's name was "Jim Class".— Brandon Campbell
- I used to think the Senior Center was where all the high school seniors got to hang out and cut class— Jordan
- I was told that spaghetti grew on trees and i anounced it in class one day in grammer school.— w.b.