WEIRD THING YOU BELIEVED AS A KID

Reddit asked, “What’s the weirdest thing you believed as a child?” Some of the responses:
– “My brother had me convinced for a while that each person had to have a unique favorite color, and since his was blue, I had to change mine. On my first day of kindergarten, we had to introduce ourselves and say our favorite color. The kids in front of me picked the “good” colors, and I panicked and told everyone my favorite color was grey.”
– “My mom explained to me that we all had belly buttons because that’s how our moms fed us before we were born. So I thought when you got pregnant, your belly button opened up and you just shoved chicken legs in there.”
– “When I was about 4, my older sister told me that since the population of Japan was so high, Japanese people slept sideways on their beds so they could fit more people on every bed.”
– “That all cats are girls and all dogs are boys.”
– “My kids believed for a few years that their ears turned red when they were lying. Whenever they told me a lie, they covered their ears.”
– “When you got ‘fired’ your job blew you up.”
– “That all of the inanimate objects in my house were sentient and could understand me if I spoke to them. Once, before leaving on a family vacation for a week, I went from room to room and said goodbye to all of the furniture.”
* PHONE TOPIC: What weird thing did you believe as a kid?