We had this cat that would roam our neighborhood. I was told its name was "Stitches." For some reason I got it in my head that if you even touched Stitches, you would "get stitches." I don't think I even really knew what "stitches" were. I just knew they hurt. :-)
A childhood belief about cats and dogs

others believed things like this
- When i was little for some reason i thought that all people from china knew karate.....yeah.— sneakydean
- when I was growing up I truly believed that my neighborhood was the only neighborhood with "THE CORNER"— Brid
- I never knew why boys had to lift up the toilet seat...until my friend told me that boys had bad aim.Anon
- I used to think that my teachers knew everything. — Unknown
- I used to believe that all famous people knew each other.— Liz
- I used to think that when we got to heaven there would be new colors that no one knew about yet.— Tracey