when I was five years old I thought that when you became an adult you stopped breathing. this was because I could see my own chest going up and down when I breathed- but I couldn't see any of the grownups chests move at all. guess I was too short.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- When I was a child, I used to believe that when we slept, we stopped breathing.Anon
- Since the girls name Jackie is short for Jacqueline, I thought the boys name Jack was short for JackalAnon
- When i was 4 i thought that all the grownups where robots— Nomad
- I thought everyone only had a set number of breaths before they died.
I breathed slowly for a long time.Anon - I always used to think that grownups whispered where they wanted to go and the car went by itself!— Kay
- I used to believe that money really did grow on trees, but grownups just didn't want us to know about it.— Mariah