I Used To Believe is a funny and bizarre collection of ideas that adults thought were true when they were children. It will remind you what it was like to be a child, fascinated and horrified by the world in equal parts. The following pages will reassure you that the things you used to believe weren't so strange after all...
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air would soon finish in the world then humanity would be in trouble but only I knew this and I didn't want to panic the entire planet so I secretly tried to think of ways to save air only I would use.
Abdul (from nature : disasters)
This is not about me. This kid who used to sit next to me was very stupid. Sorry haha. One day the teacher was explaining how the earth spun so slow we couldnt see it moving. This kid jumps up and screams "YOUR WRONG THE EARTH SPINS SO FAST THAT WE CANT SEE IT MOVING!!!" he started to shake his head rabidly.... Then he cut my pants with a scissor... My oh my. Kids are freaky.
Anon (from school : classes)
My mom used to watch Jepordy all the time. She was really smart, and usually got the questions right. One day I asked her if the people could hear her through the screen, because they almost always said what she said. I told her that she was cheating and giving them the answers. Of course, they couldn't. =)
Cheesynator (from media : tv shows)
I used to believe in ghosts because I always heard noises comming from the cellar.
Sabrina (from death : people)
When I was a little younger, I used to believe humans were able to change the color of their skin according to the color milk they drank. My mother has very fair skin with freckles and my Dad has a very dark complexion so I thought he drank chocolate milk to get his dark skin tone.
Tina C. (from body parts : skin)
I used to think that hiccups were caused by a frog in my chest who would jump and croak.
Elizabeth (from body functions : general)
When I was a kid, I wondered why husband and wife always had the same surname. I thought that people are stuck to having to marry someone of the same surname. And since my surname is rare, I was so scared because I thought I was stuck to having to marry my brother, 'coz I didn't like him.
Anon (from grown-ups : marriage)
I used to believe that everyone but me was a robot. And when I fell asleep they had to get replaced with the next day`s robots. It was a wonder to me how they could talk normally. ....I believed this Till i was about 11.
Robogirl (from kids : i'm different)
I used to belive that a birthmark happened in the first spot a Dr. touched you when you were born. (mines on my butt) lol
S.R.H. (from body parts : skin)
One day, I was chewing gum, (I love to do that, especially mint-flavored) and I swallowed it. I went to my Mom and told her that. She said that I shouldn't do that, so I started to believe when I was little that if you chewed gum and swallowed, it would clog up and stop you from breathing. I only stopped this belief lately, when I took my 5th grade SAT and swallowed gum all through the week.
Breeze (from food : chewing gum)
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