When I was three or so, I started calling daffodils, at the time a flower I was particularly fond of, daffodillos. I was told this was rubbish and for some reason decided that they were only daffodillos after the turned brown and wilted. It took my mum years to stop me thinking that.
A childhood belief about plants
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when people died, they turned brown just like plants do when THEY die.— Joey Schwartzman
- when i was little, i ues to think the lil brown dots on ur skin were chocolate so i started licking them... — lil miz shorty
- that when I growed up I would be a footballer but that was obviously rubbish as I can't play for toffee— Darren
- as a kid, i was told by my older cousins that i wasnt human until i turned 7 years old.— twk
- My mom always used to tell me that brown eggs came from brown chickens.— Taylor
- i used to believe that a perrenial was a particular flower's name— Ducki