I believed until the age of 23 that lungs were hollow, and that if you had a collapsed lung that meant it went all shrivelled like a balloon
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- My sister told me once that if I sucked too much helium out of a balloon, my lungs would explode.Anon
- When I was young I used to believe for some reason that being asthmatic meant you were born with no lungs.Anon
- I used to believe that everytime a balloon was released , it meant that a child had recently died.— Samantha
- I used to believe that a 'soul' was an organ of the human body, such as a kidney or lung. — Grace
- My older brother told me that everytime you sneezed your lungs would bleed. I believed this until I was 21!— Gem
- that song that goes *bring me a higher love*
i thought it said *breathing in iron lung*— oi