I thought that you died when someone took your picture, that you were somehow frozen, flattened out and hung on the wall.... My parents had arranged for a formal portrait of me and my sister -- I couldn't imagine why they were doing such a thing, and I was very sad and scared. The photographer came to the house, set up his lights and things, took the shot, and... I was still there! What a relief!
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when you died no matter what your tongue hung out the side of your mouth. Anon
- I used to believe that if you broke your arm, it broke off. And that if you got shot, you automatically died.— Mary Beth
- When trains (subways) go underground, my little sister thought that the lights were shooting stars.— Katie
- At a young age I couldn't imagine how people without glasses could marry the ones wearing them. — Ana
- I used to think that if you were scared "half to death" that you only had one scare left before you died.— Bush Hiddenofsky
- I used to believe that guns shot out blood because everytime somebody shot a gun in a movie you saw blood.Anon