Back then,when I was 7 years I used to believe that if I say a name of sickness I'll have that sickness so, once I saw on the news that a doctor was talking about a dangerous that the children used to suffer at that age, then I said to a cousin that she can't tell it and she believed it too.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- My mom told me that if you didn't eat enough carrots, your eyesite would suffer.— Julie Bulie
- My cousin's mom told my cousin that pop makes you short. He probably believed it.— Molly
- my uncle was a doctor, so when he told me his vw could fly, i believed.— boodles
- I believed Walter Cronkite knew everything, that's why they let him do the news.— Dixon
- I used to believe that when you had a cousin twice-removed, they had died and came back to life twice.— Amanda
- I always believed that we lived in Manchester (we didn't) but it was always the main place on the local news!— Richard M