as a child, I believed that if I put my legs behind my head, they would pop off at the joints in a great big bloody mess. I'm 17 now, and while I know much more about human anatomy, putting my legs up high still makes me irrationally nervous.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- when i was little i always asked my mom if my aunt had ant legs or people legs.— kelly
- I used to think a female daddy-long-legs was called a "mummy-long-legs".Anon
- When I first saw a picture of the human anatomy, I thought the brain was really snot.Anon
- I believed that all of my blood was stored in the calves of my legs. — Julia
- I used to believe that if I wet my legs in the sea I would become a mermaid.
— andrea - that pickles were octopus legsAnon