As a kid, I couldn't understand how people could move their eyeballs around. When I looked in the mirror, they were always pointed straight at the mirror. I even asked other kids how they moved their eyes like that. They only looked at me with bewildered expressions, or infuriatingly rolled their eyes at me.
However, the flipside of this is that I didn't think people could tell I was looking at them if my head wasn't pointed straight at them. I was so sneaky.
This all fell apart when a teacher put me into timeout because I rolled my eyes when she told me to stop doing some stupid thing. At first I didn't understand what had happened. Over the course of my timeout, I pieced all this eye business together.
A childhood belief about eyes
others believed things like this
- My mom said she had eyes in the back of her head. I looked and looked, but never found them.Anon
- I was born brunette with brown eyes and dark hair, i thought people with blue eyes, had water in them.Anon
- if I watched too much TV, I would get 'googly eyes' as mom promised, and my eyes would pop out of my head.— claire
- I used to think that if I closed my eyes other people couldn't see me.Anon
- i used to believe that my preschool teacher had eyes in the back of her head.Anon
- When I was little my friend told me that if you snease with your eyes open you eyes will fall out!Anon