When I was a little kid,about 3 or 4,if I started to get rowdy in public,my mom would always say "Do you want that man to get you?" and pointed to the nearest able bodied male.
Thus,I believed that all men where child abductors until I got lost in the mall when I was 5 and a guy tried to help my find my mother,but I punched him,kicked him,and ran off into the clothing department to hide in the clothes rack.Of course,I ran off everytime a male shopkeeper asked me where my mom was.
After a female clerk finally found me and took me to my mom,my mom yelled at me for running all over the mall.I shouted,"BUT EVERYONE WAS TRYING TO GET ME,MOMMY!There are a bunch of kidnappers in this store!I can tell,if they're a boy and they're not related to me or a police officer with a badge,they're a kidnapper!"
She never used that threat again.
A childhood belief about criminals
others believed things like this
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- I believed that all cats were female and all dogs were male. — Biologically confused
- I believed that chickens pooped eggs (male and female)— WHAT-A-Doodle-WHO??
- I wanted to be a police officer as a kid because I believe police officer's couldn't die.— Sam
- I used to believe all cats were female and all dogs were male.— Sabby
- I used to think that all cats were female and all dogs were male. — Annalisa