For some reason I didn't know what the word excitement meant, I thought there was a deflated balloon somewhere in the region of our diaphragm, and when we got excited it would inflate, but not knowing the word I always called it "the deflated balloon feeling"
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- When i was young I used to believe if I ate ham fat I was going to inflate like a balloon— a guy
- I used to believe that everytime a balloon was released , it meant that a child had recently died.— Samantha
- i usd to believe that if i put a balloon on a lawn chair that i could float up in the sky and around the worldAnon
- My older brother used to tell me that if I "untied" it, I'd fly around the room like a balloon. — Gullible youth
- If you swallowed chewing gum it would make a balloon inside you and your stomach would explodeAnon
- My sister told me once that if I sucked too much helium out of a balloon, my lungs would explode.Anon