Comments on: As a kid…

By: Princess Pointful

Princess Pointful — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:57:33 +0000

I just wrote this on your interview, but I used to think there was a monster in the elementary school toilet who came out when I flushed. Sometimes I would flush and dash… and once I got busted by a friend for running away sans flushing. Oops.

By: longredcape

longredcape — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:04:02 +0000

I was scared to use the toilet sometimes because I thought something would come up through the pipes and kill me!

This isn’t something I believed, just something weird I did. I used to take “class photos” of my stuffed animals because I played school with them. I’d get individual ones, then a group photo, with them arranged tallest to shortest. OCD at a young age, indeed. Also, when someone spoke, if they used, say, eighteen syllables, I’d take eighteen steps. So if you said, “Come here, Long Red Cape,” (5 syllables), I would take 5 steps.

WEIRD KID HUH?

By: E.P.

E.P. — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:14:51 +0000

I believed the carrots thing, too! I’m not sure why, but it’s funny thinking about now.

By: hayley42218

hayley42218 — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:28:27 +0000

I used to think that when my mom said that I would grow potatoes in my ear if they didn’t get cleaned out that she was serious, that I would literally have plants growing out of my head.

By: Manic Organic

Manic Organic — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:41:02 +0000

I believed that a bolt of electricity was going to come out of the electrical sockets in the wall, so I jumped over them to avoid a shock. I believed I was a spoiled piece of shit, just like mamma told me. I believed that being married would fix everything. I believed that if I crossed my eyes they would get stuck that way. I believed that if I bit my fingernails I would get worms.

By: alexa

alexa — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:03:14 +0000

food coloring in the water?!? heehee

i believed that if i stood outside and wished for a certain celebrity who will remain nameless to come visit me. if i just wished hard enough.

sigh.

By: transienttravels

transienttravels — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:45:47 +0000

My skin turned orange when I was a baby because of carrots! My mom was so scared that I was sick and when she took me to the hospital they told her not to worry, that it was just the carrots.

And I totally thought women with square toed shoes were witches too! I was always on the lookout for purple eyes.

By: e.

e. — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:38:45 +0000

I was convinced that women with square toed shoes were witches who were going to turn me into a mouse and then stomp on me. I still would never consider wearing shoes like that because it’s all I think of when I see them.

By: deeter

deeter — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:43:31 +0000

when i was little, my uncle/godfather told me that when you got velcro wet, it turned to sand. i had a pair of little mermaid velcro tennis shoes, and when my mom threw them in the washing machine because i had been playing in the mud at school, i cried and cried and cried cuz i thought my beloved shoes would turn to sand.

same person tried to make me believe that if i didnt finish my milk or crust, that my teeth would turn to rubber. luckily, i learned (eventually) to not believe everything he says.

By: daddy dan

daddy dan — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:32:44 +0000

Wait, Jenn.

Your old beliefs weren’t even compatible. How did you check for Jaws in your bathtub if you had to have bubbles in the water? =/