When I was eight I watched a documentary about the atomic bombing in Japan and from thereafter I had these irrational beliefs that the airplanes that always passed by our school were bombers so every time when recess came by I hid under the awning in the fear that one day there would be a detonation. I never told anybody of this because they would instantly laugh at me. I grew out of it later but in result I never played with anyone because I would shun myself away in my own "retreat" by the lunch tables.
A childhood belief about wars
others believed things like this
- When I was younger, I believed that times tables in maths were kids sitting at tables staring at clocks!Anon
- when i first started school i thought the teachers lived in the school and slept on the tables.— emma
- I thought Oklahoma was a place in Japan (due to it weird name :P), and Japan gave it to USA later.— Luiz Alfonso
- My nephew, at around age three, used to say that airplanes trailing white exhaust were "airplanes on strings".— Mojo!
- When i heard about Irish Bombers on the news during the 70s i used to think that planes were dropping bombs.— Moose
- I was told that spaghetti grew on trees and i anounced it in class one day in grammer school.— w.b.