When I was a kid I thought.:

Wow, I gotta as someone with disability and having had alot of medical problems as a kid its amazing to me that it took that long for you to have ever seen someone in a wheelchair. Not to mention having thought people of other ethnic backgrounds only lived in certain places. Your parents must have really given you a very sheltered life in your early childhood. But, there are a number of things kids believe when they are young just out of ignorance or lack of experience. I remember seeing this kid in a movie fall and break his leg, and when he went to the hospital and they started doing x-rays they found out he had cancer. So in my logic as a child of 7-8 years old I was convinced that if you broke a bone in your body for any reason it was because you had cancer. Its funny what kids come up with when the have a very limited view of the world, and their logic is so cut and dry.

i really did think you could dig your way to china. only thing is i never managed it and got into trouble from mom for digging. then, many mothers back then, would make us clean our plates of food and tell us we should feel lucky, as kids in china were starving so i would sometimes sneak a few bites of what i didnt like off my plate and go bury it, thinking it might drop through to china what a goofy kid i was.

What a great mom you have!I don't have a funny thing I used to believe as a child. The closest thing is that hearing a n airplane was my cue that it was afternoon. As a child I didn't know it was an airplane. to me it was the sound I heard every afternoon.It was years later I figured it out.

My son is now 31 months old and he has some disabilities. He has got spina bifida and hydrocephalus. He has a shunt in his head and he needs catheter care. He isn't able to walk because his legs are weak. He does exercises daily to improve his mobility. He has a pair of gaiters which he can stand in if someone holds him. He loves to crawl and gets fed up with riding in his buggy. My daughter is now 6 months old and as soon as she is walking my son will go into a wheelchair. It was a shame that you didn't know of adults in wheelchairs when you were a child. I have taught a few black children. I am a primary school teacher. One year I taught a boy from Barbados and a girl from Martinique in the Caribbean. I liked to read my class multi cultural stories like 'Amazing Grace' a girl from The Gambia and 'Gregory Cool' a boy that visits the Caribbean. When I was a child I didn't understand how the television worked. When I was young I didn't like watching television. I learned about the world and dreamed about traveling when I was grown up. I dreamed of having a cocker spaniel when I was grown up. Now I am a keen traveler and I have two miniature poodles.

You have a nice mummy. Hope you enjoyed that camp too! Must have been good to connect with others who face the same issues as you and set up a support network! I can't quite remember what ridiculous worldviews I had as a child but I'm sure there were many. Perhaps one of them was that the world was flat and you could walk to the brink of it and maybe fall off into an abyss. hee.

When I was a kid, nobody knew I had any problem with my hearing until I was about four or five years old. I remember this incident very well, I was in the back seat of a car and my parents were driving. My cousin was with me and she was sitting on my left side which is my bad side and she went to whisper something in my ear and I told her that I can't hear out of that ear but I can in this ear, meaning my right. My mom heard me and turned around and asked "what did you say?" I was really fearful of my mom (and still am) and I tentatively told her what I had said and that's when I started seeing an hearing specialist but before that, I thought everybody was like that, having one good ear and one bad. It didn't make any sense to me as to why I had a bad ear and a good ear and everybody else could hear out of both ears perfectly. Mine wasn't perfect because my bad ear I had about 20% but it had to be right loud noises for me to hear out of that ear and my right was about 60% which was "good" to me. (It's much worse now) One time I made this comment after watching my mom change ears with the telephone and said, "Gosh, that's so weird to me and wish I could switch ears like that because my one ear gets so sore from holding the phone against it for so long." She felt so guilty over that and that wasn't my intention at all and she said she knew that but still felt bad for me. I learned then to keep my trap door shut. lol