When I was little, I got the words "cannibal" and "barbarian" confused. My mom joked that my uncle "ate like a barbarian" once and for almost a year I was terrified of him because i thought he ate people.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- My uncle told me if you twist your bellybutton, your bum will fall off, I was terrified!— little2ft
- I used to be scared that if I chewed my cuticles and swallowed a piece of skin, I would become a cannibal. Anon
- this guy i used to go to school with thought that Ned Kelly was his uncleAnon
- when I was little my uncle told me he was part bear. I believed people could be part bear until I was twelve. — Audrey
- I used to believe that people born on leap year would only age once every 4 yearsAnon
- my uncle got sent to prison on the Isle of Wight. I thought that he had been sent into exile.— nns