I used to believe that if I ate candy I would shrink because that is what my brother and sister said. They said I started out the same size as them but because I ate candy I had shrunk. Eventually I gave them all my Easter Candy that year.
A childhood belief about eating

others believed things like this
- I thought if you took some candy and buried in the yard, you would grow a candy tree.Anon
- I thought that the barber sign meant candy because I thought it looked like a candy cane.Anon
- When I was little my parents used to tell me and my sister that carrots were "orange candy." — Nancy
- i used to believe cotton candy was real cotton after going to chuckie cheese and my brother told me— jennifer
- When I Was Little,I Used To Believe Clouds Were Candy FlossAnon
- I used to believe when I was young that Poland was made entirely of candy.— Jenn