I once asked my mother what whould happen if you held in a fart, not getting much response I asked would the gas poison your insides, to which she replied yes (being a mother now with 3 young kids constantly asking questions - I realise now she was not actually listening to me). Unfortunately I believed holding them in would kill me so from that day I would fart whenever the need took me - including a very loud embarrassing one in Kindy during the singing session. I put up with the humiliation of everyone laughing at me because I genuinely beleived I had saved my own life.
A childhood belief about farting
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you sniffed a really stinky fart, it would poison your insides and die.— Fartcheeks
- i thought that if you held in your fart you burp if you happen to hold both in you explode!— ahh!
- I once told a friend of mine that if you held in a smelly burp, it'd turn into a fart. She believed me.Anon
- I used to believe that if you had to fart and held it in too long that it would cause you to blow upAnon
- I used to believe that if you held a fart in long enough it would come out as a burp.— Chris
- when i was a little girl, i beleived that women didnt have bums, because i never heard my mom fart. Anon