When I was very little, I so wanted a puppy, but my parents would never let me have one. So, in my desperation to have some sort of pet, I made up a little scruffy white Highland Terrier, called Toto. Toto sat on the sofa with me to watch television, he slept on my bed at night, and he even had a special bowl filled with water in the kitchen (that my parents insisted they, and my mean older brother would never kick over) I guess sometimes I was just plain lonely, having all my brothers friends living close by, while all mine lived in the bigger, posher houses further from the local primary school. Toto has now become a valued family heirloom-because I've now 'passed him on' to my littlest cousin, who is only five. She adores Toto, and even though her parents say he's not real, the rest of us cousins know he's merely invisible...
A childhood belief about imaginary friends
others believed things like this
- On family road trips, my parents always told me that water towers were filled with chocolate.— Edith
- I used to believe that all parents were called "Inge and Dirk", just like mine— eva
- When I was little, my parents told me if i ate my fish sticks, I would become invisible.— Jake
- I used to think teachers lived at school, and slept there at night.— Stephanie
- I thought that my parents chose my cousins, and was upset when my mother wouldn't let me add one.Anon
- My parents used to tell me watching television turns your eyes square.— Ruth