When I was little and wouldn't eat my mom always told me she used to have a brother named Joey that wouldn't eat either and he got so skinny that a strong gust of wind blew him away and they never saw him again. I believed it..
A childhood belief about eating

others believed things like this
- When I was a child and the wind blew strong I used to believe that someone was hiding under the bed.— FER
- I used to believe that trees made the wind, but its the wind that blew the trees!— victoria
- I thought rain was made when God was crying, and wind when God blew on the earth because it was too hot.— Andy T
- One kid I know believed that because I wear glasses, it wouldn't hurt if he poked my eye.Anon
- My mother told me when i was 5 that Santa wouldn't come if i kept sucking my thumb. — Traumatized
- My brother once convinced me that the wind was "leftover hurricanes"— Tufty the Squirrel