I used to believe that when you got scurvy you'd grow scales. I don't know why. my dad always told me to eat my oranges or else I'd get scurvy. I didn't eat an orange till I was about eight. I wanted to be a fish.
A childhood belief about eating

others believed things like this
- My sister ate fish food one day and she was convinced that she was going to grow scales— leohauoli
- I used to believe that contact lenses were made out of fish scales— ddm
- my aunt used to tell me that pinapples made your eyebrows grow. i believed it till i was about 10.— Anna
- I thought "Orange is the New Black" was about wearing orange to funerals.Anon
- I used to believe that a fish cake was a fish in sponge and coated in icing. I believed this until I was 9.Anon
- i used to beleive the ice cream man was a fish man - becuase i hated fish.— jordan