When I was little, I used to nibble on all sorts of things: toys, biscuits, the dinner table. My parents said I had "mouse teeth" and I thought they meant that my teeth were yellow and pointy and ugly. Just about all photos of me have me smiling with just my lips; no teeth showing. I'm now 49......oh dear.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- Until I was around 8 or 9 years old, I thought dentists took your teeth out and replaced them with new teeth.— Verapamilo
- I used to believe that eating burnt toast would make your teeth whiter and would brush your teeth for you.— Natasha
- I used to believe that if I didn't brush my teeth at night, ants would crawl into my mouth and eat my teeth.Anon
- Until I was about 8 I believed that your back teeth keep growing in until you have a full circle of teeth.Anon
- When I was very young, I assumed that false teeth were taken from dead people's teethAnon
- I believed I was a vampyre because my canine teeth were EXTREMELY pointy— Kira Pangburn