Mom used to tease me when I was younger, because I was such a "fuzzy" child. She told me stories that I was born with a tail like a monkey, and that they had to cut holes out of my diapers to let my tail out, until finally they had the tail surgically removed.
I hated those stories.
A childhood belief about appearance

others believed things like this
- We told our little sister that she had a long bushy tail and she fully believed us for ages!!Anon
- When I was very little, I used to believe that bacon came from the tail of a pig because it was curly!!— Audrey
- I used to believe that a cat's butt hole was on the tip of his tail.— PANTS
- I used to believe that if I wagged my dog's tail, it would cheer my dog up.— GED
- I used to believe that if you hit your tailbone, a tail could grow out of it.— Ida
- My Dad convinced me that Manx cats had no tail - and only three legs.— Jim