I used to believe that a man's Adam's apple was the result of years of swallowing chewing gum and it gets stuck in their throats! If I ever swallowed any gum I would feel my adams apple to see if it had grown!!

michelle

When I was little, I was a REALLY good bubble blower. But one day my brother told me the bubble would get so big that it would pop around my face and I would suffocate. Still to this day, I don't blow bubbles, and if I see somone else blowing one, even a really tiny one, I cringe and cover my face. And I'm 23 in two months!!!

Benine

I used to think that when you chewed gum you chewed GUN! Boy, I couldn't believe they'd sell guns to minors. lol

Doublemint Gun

I use to believe that the belief of ending up with gum in your hair if you wnet to sleep with gum in your mouth was not because it might fall out of your mouth onto your pillow, but that it would somehow absorb through the roof of your mouth through your head and into your hair.

Hank

I used to believe that when chewing gum lost its taste it wasn't sticky. I stuck some flavourless chewing gum in my hair and it stuck. I hid it from my mum because I knew she would freak out. After 2 weeks she noticed and I had to have a huge chunk of my hair cut out.

Anon

Here I am laughing at what kids think. As a kid I've believed a couple of the things as well.

Until I get the to gum section. Imagine my shock to learn that gum does NOT stay in the stomach for several years like I've always believed. I had to Google it to prove myself wrong just now. I'm 34.

Calvin

(please remember that i was very young when this happened!)

i was at my friend's house when his mum came in to offer us some chewing gum. she offered it to evryone and we sat around the table playing cards. i had never seen gum before, so i just put it into my mouth, chewed it then swallowed it. i looked around and saw everyone was still chewing it, and i was thinking how slow they all were. it was only until i asked my dad what it was that i realised how stupid i was.

toni

My boyfriends granmother told him when he was a young boy that if he swallowed chewing gum it would go into his 'bits bag' (located somewhere near your heart) When your 'bits bag' is full, you die.
My boyfriend is now 27, he made me promise him that i would not swallow my chewing gum, because he is scaried i will die.

rosie

When I was little, one of my older brother's friends told me that if you swallow gum it will give you diharria! So I went around telling everyone not to swallow their gum. I still kinda believe that too!

Elizabeth

My Uncle Billy used to tell us that if we swallowed chewing gum it would clog our bums up !

Coolbuzz

My grandmother told me that each piece of gum I swallowed would just sit in my stomach. The next piece would fall and stick right on top of the old piece. Eventually, this pile of gum would get so high that the last piece would stick in my throat and choke me. I didn't stop swallowing my gum, but each time I wondered if this was the swallow that would kill me.

Pat

When I was young, I used to believe that if I swallowed my gum, it would be stored someplace in my body until I turned 18, when it would all come out at once. So I always made sure to spit my gum out.

I also thought that if I forced my eyes out of focus that it would affect everyone else's vision, too. They would see things blurry, just like I did. Finally, when I was about 10, I sat my Mom down and did it, and of course, she didn't see anything differently.

Tom

my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.

stuart hayward

My dad told me that Chiclets gum (the kind little kids sell on the streets in Mexico) was made from gum scraped up off the sidewalks. I can't eat Chiclets to this day.

Sarah

when I was seven my brother told me that if I swallowed chewing gum my arm would drop off.

john

My mum told me that if I swallowed my chewing gum, the gum would stick to my internal organs and I'd have to go for an operation to get the chewing gum out of me.

Tryph

My mom told me that if I swallowed my chewing gum, I'd have gum trees growing out of my ears. I kept sticking my fingers in my ears, hoping to feel the branches emerging.

Natalie

I used to believe that all things that tasted minty (Gum, peppermints) worked just as well to clean your teeth as mouthwash did.

ClaireC

When I was 8 this mean girl in my school told me that her dog ate a piece of gum and it pooped out all it's organs because it stuck them all together. I believed her because she was a grade or two older than me. Soon after I was chewing gum and it fell out of my mouth and my dog ate before I could get to it. I cried for like an hour. Even after my parent's told me it wasn't true, I followed my dog around for a while waiting for him to go.

Me

when tongue splashers gum first come out, a rumor went around my school that the gum permanently stained your whole mouth whatever color the gumball was. the whole school was in mass hysteria for about a week until someone discovered the effects were only temporary.

lc