When I was very young I thought that as you eat, the food filled your hollow body and stretched it, and that's how people grow.
A childhood belief about eating
others believed things like this
- I used to beleive, that if you swallowed a seed the food would grow in your body.Anon
- I used to believe that as I ate food, I filled up, and that once I filled up completely, I would die. Anon
- when i was young, i thought all people with the same name would grow up to look the same. — kim
- I used to believe that my head was filled with hair waiting to grow.— Poppy
- i used to believe that people's buttocks were plump because of the poo filled in it— Diesa
- My sister ate fish food one day and she was convinced that she was going to grow scales— leohauoli