My dad used to always tell me i sat too close to the T.V. and that i watched it too much. He said that he was only telling me for my own sake so that i don't end up like the other 10% of children whose bodies rotted and turned inside-out from doing so.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- I used to believe there was nothing inside our bodies when I was about 4.— Connie
- i used to believe that my brain worked like the inside of a clock. How the wheels cranked and turned.— Becky
- I was convinced that children weren't humans, only adults were, children were a total different race!— Leda
- I used to think Kenny Rogers had 400 children and a crop in the field. Rather than 4 hungry children.Anon
- My daddy used to think that there was a children-police that killed children who was bad— jonnie
- I used to think that when people died, their whole bodies were taken up to heaven, not just their spirits.— Karrie