I was really young when I saw the movie "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" and for some reason this movie convinced me that my Mom had a shrinking machine somewhere in the house. I would very carefully enter rooms, fearing that the machine was in there and that I would be shrunk. My Mom stepped on every bug she ever saw so I knew if she saw me I would be a goner!
A childhood belief about family

others believed things like this
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know
- i used to believe that our ansering machine was the washing machine and that it could talk
— tamara - I used to believe that spiders were mutated rats that were shrunk!— Quako
- When I got my feet measured by the electronic machine, I thought that the machine will squash my feet!— Helen
- When I was little I used to belief that my clothes shrunk systematically, instead of me growing...— Nico
- My Sister Once Said That Polly Pocket Was A Real Girl That Got Shrunk To Doll Size And Turned Into A Doll.— Jamie