When I was little I never understood how people could 'get lost' bushwalking or in the Outback. My mother always seemed to know what I was doing, so I thought we lived in some kind of Big Brother state where the authorities were watching everyone, even in remote locations. Whenever the news announced a bushwalker missing, I just wondered why they didn't check all of their footage.
A childhood belief about being watched
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that which ever way you looked it was north, never understood how people got lost :-S— Simon
- I always believed that we lived in Manchester (we didn't) but it was always the main place on the local news!— Richard M
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know
- while my son was crying one day, my little brother announced that "babies cry to let off moisture". ha!— i'm laughing WITH you
- I used to believe that California was my house, not the state I lived in.— Katie
- I used to believe that you could create money (that you didn't previously have) by writing a check.Anon