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Be careful what you believe DK, there have been false claims made of Mr. Rogers.
For example, it was once rumored that the reason he always wore those sweaters was because his arms were covered in naval tats and that he was an A-list naval assassin.

Mr Rogers was a wonderful man, people just want something to be not awesome about him

Indeed... It's the same sort of thing with other awesome people, like David Bowie... Not even a week after he'd passed, people started posting stuff on facebook about him being abusive, and I was sitting there going "Good grief, people. At least wait until he's been gone for a year before stirring the pot!"

if one is to make a claim they should be able to back it up XD

It was something told to me when I was little. (while he was still alive) Mom wouldn't let me watch the show because of it.

Mother doesn't always know best.

XD Somebody managed to track down a package of diaper pins for me, and they're now all over the place, including holding the button on my purse. I've also got an old style metal headed diaper pin that I picked up from the sidewalk. It's holding an assortment of ribbons and tags on the side of my purse.

0.o Why would I freeze on the hot day?

You might not, but I do.

Ohhh. Sorry. LOL I was confused by your wording.

lol no worries, but yeah. I freeze in the middle of the summer. it stinks.

I just get heatstroke. Even when I was skinny I did.

*startles* For the first time today, I have cold hands!

And what is your source's source. A child will believe anything, unfortunately.
When I was little my mother handled a fear I had of a spider crawling up in my bed by spraying around my bed with some of her body mist and telling me that spiders avoided chemicals.
It took me YEARS to realize she'd BSed that.
Just saying.

My safety pins aren't the diaper variety but I do believe I found one of them on the ground. Their very first use was for my werewolf Halloween mask my senior year of high school, it was too big.
I'd love to have a whole mess of them, they are so useful.

This could go under the broader "misconception" category :P There are a ton of non-debatable misconceptions floating around the world for various reasons, most of them communication-based (language barriers, misunderstandings, poor wording, the "telephone" game (or whatever it's called) effect, cognitive biases). Some of them finally poof as time goes on, but many persist. And mothers are usually very protective of their children, so they're gonna be extra cautious. It's definitely understandable if the mom is a typical mom in the sense that she really loves her kids.

I really hope I don't need to pull up examples of the many non-debatable common misconceptions ;P

._. Like I'm suppose to have asked her where she heard it. Asking her now would be pointless because she doesn't remember much of my childhood. =w=,


OuO We played the Telephone game in second grade! We lined up around the class room, the teacher would start by whispering something into someones ear and we were to pass it to the person next to us so on so forth. The person at the end of the line was to say out loud what they heard, and it was Completely different from what the teacher started with. xD

Awww. I'd offer to share, but all my big, really useful ones are the diaper pins (which are all hard at work, I think. XD). The other ones I have are all those little cheap things that they sell by the package of hundreds.

Oh, and the tag holder round one that my stuffed pony's wearing for an earring. XD

I do that, too, if I'm not careful. My internal thermostat's all out of whack.