In kindergarten, a boy I did not know well had an oral retainer for his upper teeth. He was twiddling it around in his mouth one day and since it was flesh colored, I thought that he had a hole in his mouth that lead to his brain and that the retainer was actually like a man-hole cover. I was very frightened of him and never spoke to him. I did not learn about orthodontics until middle school.
A childhood belief about appearance
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I didn't brush my teeth at night, ants would crawl into my mouth and eat my teeth.Anon
- I was told that if one doesn't cover their mouth when yawning that their soul would escape.Anon
- I used to believe that if you dig a hole in the ground and put pepper in the hole, the ground would sneeze.— Cookie
- I used to belive that if i put my foot in my mouth, I would get foot-and-mouth illness— Emily Sathrota
- I had a little hole in the wall under my bed when I was little and I thought that Fraggles lived in there.....— Tina
- at the age of seventeen my sister thought another name for a pigeon hole was a birds nest.— Sophie