My mom has always said, "bowel movement" in reference to using the bathroom, (#2). When I was little and asked her why she said that, she explained that a bowel movement was what made our poop come out. So naturally, I thought that meant there was something inside of us called a "bowel", and that when ever IT moved around, it forced our poop out. It wasn't until some time later during a bad stomach ache that I suggested to my mom that, "...maybe my bowel was broken", when she realized I had the wrong idea, and explained things a little better.
A childhood belief about weeing and pooing
others believed things like this
- I actually asked my mother if mixing girls' poop and boys' poop would cause an explosion.— kraine
- I used to believe that God was like a puppeteer, controlling every single movement we made. — Carrie C. in PA
- When I was young I used to believe that Euthanasia was a youth movement in Asia- how naive is that!!!— Ruth
- My poop was always around the same color as my skin so I assumed white people's poop was white.— jaycee
- when I was little I used to think that white people had pink poop (i am brown so my poop is brown)— helena muteka
- i used to think there were little mini oompa loompas inside of me that pushed the poop out of my buttAnon