I thought that as you ate, your body filled up with food. I reasoned that that's why we got bigger, to hold all the food we ate. I remember being around six, sitting at the breakfast table, thinking that I must be full from at least the knees down.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that as I ate food, I filled up, and that once I filled up completely, I would die. Anon
- I thought i had to chew my food 27 times before i could swallow because Stephanie said it on Full HouseAnon
- I thought when you got food poisoning it might someone had put poison in your food— Bootlebat
- I use to believe that salt would cool food down while pepper would heat your foodAnon
- I used to believe when ordering Chinese food the food and delivery man came from China— Dave
- I used to beleive, that if you swallowed a seed the food would grow in your body.Anon