After my dad had a 2 inch section of skin cancer removed from his shoulder, it was of course stitched up. I had always thought it was a caterpillar on his shoulder.
A childhood belief about skin
others believed things like this
- At the age of about 5, I thought that any man carrying a bag/sack over his shoulder was a burglar.— Police officer, Ola.
- I used to think that the shoulder blades were actually "back breasts".— Kdees
- I used to call the shoulder of the road, the elbow.Anon
- When we were younger my sister and I used to think that our shoulder blades were really sprouting wings.— Raven
- I used To believe that if you picked your freckles you would get skin cancer— Janella
- In 'Call Me Maybe', I misheard 'Ripped jeans skin' as 'Rich cheese skin'. — Carly Rae Cheddar