My mom named me after her beloved cat, Melissa, who was still alive when I was about 4. By then, I had already learned that when an animal was sick, you had to put it down. (we had already lost one of our dogs) Then, one night, when I had the flu, I came downstairs to get a glass of water, and I overheard my mom saying "Yeah, Melissa is so sick... I think I'm going to have to put her down." I was terrified, so I ran back upstairs and convinced myself that if I went right to bed, I would get better in the morning, and I wouldn't have to die.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that the water in the ocean went away a night......then came back in the morning.— Beverly
- I thought Pink's "You make me sick" was "you make me sick, you make me look like a candlestick" LOL— Rice
- My sister and I thought cats and dogs were the same animal, the dogs were male and the cats were female.— Paul
- I used to believe that doctors could not get sick.Anon
- When I was little I thought if you were sick the only way to get better was to give it to someone else.— Jen
- If you cut or pluck a cats whiskers they could get sick or die.— Paul Adam Trepanier