When I saw people get shot on tv when I was young, I used to think they were dead if they fell to the ground with their arms over their head. If their arms were down by their side, I thought they would be okay.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I used to think Jaywalkers were people who walked briskly whilst swinging their arms.. whoops!— Lisa
- I used to believe that when people got shot in the head that their heads would blow up. — Emily
- We used to think that if you ran swinging your arms around, you would run faster. — Christine
- that if I flapped my arms hard enough, I could get airborne.— DeQuendre
- When my grandma was little, her dad would tell her that the freckles on her face and arms were fly crap.Anon
- I used to think that 'testicles' was the word for the arms of a squid or an octopus. — Emily