Broken bones meant that your arm or leg was separated from your body.
A childhood belief about being ill

others believed things like this
- I used to think that instead of bones and blood and tissue that you body was made up of tuna.— m.n
- I used to believe that when people broke bones, doctors would give them a new part of the body they broke. — Kelly
- I used to think that "extra body" shampoo meant you could use the runoff suds to clean your body.— Christy
- When I was a kid I thought rape just meant someone tearing the clothes off of a woman's body.— Matt
- When I was about 4 or 5, I used to believe that instead of bones, we had metal pipes. — TL
- I used to believe that the chunks in chunky peanutbutter were actually bonesAnon