My mom's sister used to always pinch her when they were kids, just to annoy her. One day my mom started crying and told her mom, and her mom told her sister that if she pinched her she would get a tumor. My mom used to cry all the time because she thought she had a tumor because of this.
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- When I was small, my brother would bug me and say that if my hand was bigger than my head, I had a tumor.Anon
- When my sister told one of my brothers her e-mail address, he thought to spell out “at” instead of typing “@”.— EJ - no longer computer illiterate!
- My sister told me that snow was God's dandruff.— Erin
- I used to think that thunder was god bowling. My sister told me that.— Eli
- when i was little my sister told me that when i bite my nails it would cut through my skin and i would die! — nn
- when i was about 5 my sister told me that kiwis were elephant poop— kelli putnam