My mother used to say that if went to sleep without eating first, we would eat our fingers. My sister and I every morning we used to check our hands.
A childhood belief about eating
others believed things like this
- when i was small, i thought if i don't sleep then morning wouldn't come..— lily
- i used to believe that when you went to sleep you died and then came back to life in the morning— soph
- My sister told me that if I picked my nose there were snail creatures inside of it that would bite my fingers.Anon
- I used to think that artichokes were animals because my mother said we were eating artichoke hearts. Anon
- I'm autistic, and I used to believe taking some of my sister's food while she was eating it was sharing.Anon
- My mother convinced all of us kids in our family that the large rhubarb in the garden was a Man-Eating Plant. — H.Miller