When I was little I heard about moles, the mammal, and became convinced that the moles on people's skin were actually the tip of burrowed mole's tails poking up. I had no clue how they got into your skin, but I became very scared of them.
A childhood belief about skin
others believed things like this
- i believed that moles wore davy lamps on their heads so they could see underground— Omi
- In 'Call Me Maybe', I misheard 'Ripped jeans skin' as 'Rich cheese skin'. — Carly Rae Cheddar
- I used to be scared that if I chewed my cuticles and swallowed a piece of skin, I would become a cannibal. Anon
- I used to think wrinkles came about because people just grew too much skin.Anon
- That everyone had the same amount of skin and that short people were fat and tall people were skinny.Anon
- When I was 6 or 7, I believed that people could have yellow skin like in the simpsons— Noah