When one of my pets would die my mother would tell me it ran away so I wouldn't feel bad. I actually believed that all my pets ran away until I was about 19 when she told me the truth about all the pets I ever had.
A childhood belief about animals
others believed things like this
- My parents used to own a Restaurant. I belived the lobsters in the tank were pets.— Ned
- My mother told me when i was 5 that Santa wouldn't come if i kept sucking my thumb. — Traumatized
- I believed that dolls could feel when I didn't love them, that's why I treated them well.Anon
- I thought that my parents chose my cousins, and was upset when my mother wouldn't let me add one.Anon
- my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.— stuart hayward
- I believed that everytime I kissed my David Cassidy poster he'd feel it back home in Hollywood.— Marie M