When I was about six, I had the theory that if you ever broke a bone it was replaced by one of your smaller "bones" (actually just ridges) that covered your Adam's apple. It would fall into your stomach and expand, then float to wherever needed repair. When you were old and all of your bones had been broken, you would no longer be able to feel your Adam's apple because all your bones had been used. I believed that seriously and told my dad about it, who didn't discourage me from the idea until I was in third grade.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that in China, instead of Adam and Eve eating an apple? They believed it was a banana.— smartygirl
- I used to believe that when people broke bones, doctors would give them a new part of the body they broke. — Kelly
- Broken bones meant that your arm or leg was separated from your body.— Kelly Hanson
- My Mom used to tell me if I swallowed an apple seed I would grow an apple tree inside my stomach!— Marg
- When I was a kid, I used to bellieve that when I eat an apple pip an apple tree would grow up in my stomach!Anon
- My girlfriend believed someone who told her that chewing gum was made from dogs bones!— tony