When I was younger I would always chew my gum and swallow it. My aunt told me that there was this thing in my throat and when I swallowed my gum it would get stuck there. She also sayed that it stayed there for 7 years. I really thought that every time i swallowed gum it was there for 7 years and it just kept building up and i would die cause all my food would not go down my throat.

Andrea

I thought when you chew gum and you swallot it you would choke and die o_o

Courtney

When I was younger I had a terrible habit of swallowing my gum. one day my mom said that when you swallow gum it just stays in your stomach and that eventually you'd get very sick and couldn't poop anymore. to this day I never swallow my gum!

Karma

One day, I was chewing gum, (I love to do that, especially mint-flavored) and I swallowed it. I went to my Mom and told her that. She said that I shouldn't do that, so I started to believe when I was little that if you chewed gum and swallowed, it would clog up and stop you from breathing. I only stopped this belief lately, when I took my 5th grade SAT and swallowed gum all through the week.

Breeze

when i was a child, i used to believe that if i swallowed a chewing gum it will make my internal organs stick together...and if i didn't eat 2 eggs it will affect the sight in my eyes as one egg for each eye... i also used to believe that the chocolate i found on x-mas tree was put by santa clause at night...i believed if i bent down from balcony, the earth will send a big rope up and pull me down to z ground....and i thought dad was 100 years old and that there's nothing he doesn't know :)

Nermine Reda

that if you swallowed gum id would get stuck in your stomach and more food would pile up and then youd die!!!
then i learned how to use a computer and things changed...

Anon

i beleived that if you swallowed too much gum, it would clog up your stomach and you would starve

poisen

I used to belief that if you swolled 1 little piece of gum it would kill you.

Know I know

I WAS TOLD THAT OF YOU SWALLOWED GUM, IT WOULD WRAP AROUND YOUR HEART AND KILL YOU

MELISSA

Swallowing chewing gum = choking

Kitty Lover

My parents told me that if I swallowed chewing gum it would wrap around my heart and windpipe and choke me :-(

Boooooooots

When i was little i used to think if you swallowed your gum it would swell up in your throat you would choke and die now i still have a tough time swallowing my gum in class so i wont get caught.

autumn

When I was very young, my Dad told me that my lungs were two sacks (I imagined hessian sacks in a dusty old room) and my digestive system was a series of cogs and wheels. I swallowed chewing gum once and Dad said if I do that it gets tangled in my cogs and they stop turning. This of course scared the living daylights out of me, thinking I could die through swallowing gum! I can still picture the sacks and the cogs. And I never swallowed gum again!

Anon

i believed that if u swallowed chewing gum you would die beacuase it would wrap around the heart

bex

My cousin's mom (my aunt) used to tell her that if she swallowed gum, she would die. My aunt (about 50 years old) actually DOES believes this.

Freaky, I know.

Grace

I was told by my sister, and I used to believe, that if I swollowed chewing gum i'd die.
Like.. if I swallowed it more than 2 or 3 times.

Nick M

When I was very young my mother told me that if I swallowed a piece of gum it would stick to my heart and make it stop beating. Needless to say, to this day my gum always ends up in the trash.

Jason

Someone I knew used to believe that if you swallowed gum it would make a bubble and block food from going into your stomach, thus killing you. Much to my relief, I had discovered eventually that for swallowing gum to be bad for you, you would have to swallow about 7 pieces a day for about a month. I was a weird kid.

SparkyTheOtherReindeer

I used to believe that if you swollowed you gum, that it would stick to your heart and then you'll die.

Ebony