When I was in preschool, my parents took me to the zoo. I loved the petting zoo. I came home with imaginary animal friends. They were each called by the name of their species. Example: Goat was a goat and Sheep was a sheep. They followed me around everywhere and could talk.
A childhood belief about imaginary friends
others believed things like this
- As a young child I thought that sheep and poodles were the same animal.— Jane
- When we were little my sister thought if you mixed cow’s milk and water you’d get goat’s milkAnon
- I use to think sheep shrank when it rained.Anon
- sheep were wooly pigs— CJ
- I used to believe that humans were a subspecies of sheep.Anon
- I used to believe that when sheep had their wool sheered off, they became lambds again.— Janet