When I was a very young child for some reason my mother told me that armpits were "private places" and I should never look at anyone's bare armpit. I grew up believing this and didn't realize it was not so until I was about fifteen. I've asked my mother several times if she remembers telling me that armpits were private, but she does not and denies ever saying something so ridiculous. To this day (I am 22 years old) I still get shy when I see a bare armpit.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- When I was a child, I used to believe that armpits were private parts— Duda Gueiros
- I used to believe that showing my bare arms meant that I was naked, so I never wore short sleeves as a kid. Anon
- When I was a kid, I wondered why they called it "public hair" when it was so private.Anon
- I thought there were only four ranks in the army: private, corporal, Seargeant, and General— Alberto Richardson
- I thought when Grandma's hens were cackling, they were giggling about some private joke in the henhouse. — Not a farm kid
- My Mother used to tell me only the good die young and I would live to be 100+ years old because I was bad.— William