When I was little, I use to believe that the reason people stretched all the time was because if they sat too long they would shrink, so stretching was a way to get back the original size.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- that....I do not grow old (in size)...rather my clothes and shoes shrink..— mayank
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know
- i used to think mushrooms made you shrink— deanna
- When I was little I wanted to be an actress because I thought they shrink you and put you inside of a TV.— Lindsay
- I had my wife convinced that Steven Hawking made his fortune as the original voice for the speak N spell toy.Anon
- I used to think that a carpool was one of those bug, long limosine's with a pool all the way in the back.— Annie