When I was little, I thought bruises were sacks of pain underneath the skin, and the only way to get rid of them was to release all the pain. To release the pain, I pressed on my bruises. I had a lot of bruises.
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- When I was 6 i used to think that eating Bananas with bruises on was how you actually got bruises!!— Kat
- When I was 6 i used to think that eating Bananas with bruises on was how you actually got bruises!!
— Katy - I used to believe that bruises were mouldy blood. — LLB 91
- I used to believe that bruises were rotten blood. — llb91
- When I was younger I used to believe that when I hit an object they would feel pain like they were living.— Alice
- In 'Call Me Maybe', I misheard 'Ripped jeans skin' as 'Rich cheese skin'. — Carly Rae Cheddar