when i was five i was climbing on a chain link fence. My uncle told me to knock it off, because the rusty metal could give me tetanus. for almost 6 years i was deathly afraid of metal. i wouldn't handle a knife or eat with a fork. even today, tin foil gives me the creeps.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that Metal music was when a bunch of people would bang metal together to make noise. Ha ha.— Kassandra
- When I was about 4 or 5, I used to believe that instead of bones, we had metal pipes. — TL
- I used to believe that water towers were giant metal spiders. Don't ask. — Goatgirl
- When I was a child, I thought that the Heavy Metal was Satanic music.Anon
- I used to believe that there was special metal laid in the motorways that made the cars go faster!!— angela
- I used to believe the large metal structure in Paris, France, I thought it was the "Eye Full Tower"— Janet