You know how your skin peels off when you've had a sunburn or when you get a blister or anything like that? Well I believed that if you peeled the skin enough, you would eventually peel through to the bone.
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- In 'Call Me Maybe', I misheard 'Ripped jeans skin' as 'Rich cheese skin'. — Carly Rae Cheddar
- I used to believe that we had a finite amount of skin and that I would eventually run out due to pealing.Anon
- When I was 6 or 7, I believed that people could have yellow skin like in the simpsons— Noah
- I used to think that when you got like a twitching eye or something, it was little bugs under my skin.Anon
- i used to believe that black wood ear
came from the skin of the bats— JULIE - I used To believe that if you picked your freckles you would get skin cancer— Janella