When I was a kid and my mom would tell me "don't talk to strangers..",I never really knew what a "stranger" was. To me, 'strangers' were tall, skinny men wearing capes, with giant needles on their head...who would stab you to death, with these needles, if you talked to them.
A childhood belief about appearance
others believed things like this
- Strangers in the night, exchanging glasses...
well I was only young at the time!— ..maz.. - dragonfliesw ere called, Devil's darning needles.— davarm
- Whenever I got pins and needles in my legs, I thought that woodlice where crawling around inside them!— squee
- I used to believe that the "booger man" was a tall skinny guy that was covered in boogersAnon
- That everyone had the same amount of skin and that short people were fat and tall people were skinny.Anon
- I used to think that capes made people fly.Anon