This comic depicts a common misconception that children fall victim to that I, too, fell victim to at about 4 years old. During the lovely, sunny summer days of 2000, I was enjoying watermelon outside wearing my favourite hat, as 4-year-olds do, when the person who ran the daycare I attended told me that I would grow a watermelon in my tummy if I swallowed a watermelon seeds. I knew that I had counted not one, but THREE watermelon seeds before I took a bite out of my watermelon, and was so scared of having a watermelon in my stomach I started to cry.

Who is sharing this comic? Author?: CAP.KITTO
Image Alt Text - Say what can be seen: I have a sun drawn in the upper left hand corner and underneath it is a small stick figure child (me) wearing a bucket/ sunhat style hybrid (it was my favourite) with a little bit of hair sticking out, and crying. Stick figure me is holding the sides of her stomach which has a watermelon in it and some vines growing out. Some seeds and an arrow depict that I had swallowed the seeds. To my right, an adult stands in a "well, you know" gesture, but they are too tall to see their face due to the height difference (and also I don't remember any of their defining characteristics)

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