I used to think that the human body was a big bag full of blood and that our skin was like a water balloon, holding it all in. When a person got a cut or scrape, it was as if the balloon had sprung a leak!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- When i was young I used to believe if I ate ham fat I was going to inflate like a balloon— a guy
- i usd to believe that if i put a balloon on a lawn chair that i could float up in the sky and around the worldAnon
- My older brother used to tell me that if I "untied" it, I'd fly around the room like a balloon. — Gullible youth
- I used to believe that everytime a balloon was released , it meant that a child had recently died.— Samantha
- If you swallowed chewing gum it would make a balloon inside you and your stomach would explodeAnon
- My sister told me once that if I sucked too much helium out of a balloon, my lungs would explode.Anon