My older brother told me that if you ate nothing but bananas and vaseline all your life, you would live forever.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I thought that when I got older "they" would invent a cure for death and I could live forever.— wishful thinking
- In the mid 90's, I used to believe that babies who were born in the year 2000 would live forever.Anon
- My brother told me that I would turn into a boy when I got older. It made me cry.— Sarah
- I used to eat doggy chocs until my older brother told me that if I did I would have puppies.— EG
- My mum told my older brother that dogs weren't allowed in London.— Fiz
- When I was very small. by older brother told me that if I "Kissed my own elbow, I would turn into a boy."Anon