I used to believe that a person's ethnicity was determined by tiny creatures that lived in your blood. I was afraid that if I cut myself all of mine might swim out and I would never be allowed to find my birth family.
A childhood belief about family

others believed things like this
- I used to beleive that the computer bugs were real creatures that lived in your pc and ate away at it.— BoBo
- when i was younger i used to think no-one was driving cars and it was only my family who were allowed to...— Lucie x
- when I was young, I heard that blood had iron in it. I thought blood was red because it was rusty.— Hunter
- My music teacher once said that music in an electrical piano was made by little tiny men that lived inside it.Anon
- I used to believe that tv people were tiny famous people that lived inside that box with a window called TV.— Miguel Horacio
- I used to think that everyone had a little person just like them that all lived in the telephone.— Jenni