I used to think 'feared dead' means the person got afraid of something and died. My dad and brother till date tease me with that (now brave 23)
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when my fish died and floated to the top, it was playing dead.— Alycia T
- I thought when a road sight said Dead End that someone had actually died there.Anon
- I thought that when you went over a speedbumb it was a dead person who had been hit by a car!Anon
- When I was 4 or so I believed if you touched a dead person you'd die too.— anonymous
- I thought that when you died, you had 2 weeks to be dead then you would magically wake up again, but as a babyAnon
- I used to believe that a wake was something you go to to try to bring the dead person back to life.Anon