I was told that if you just let your farts out then eventually you would not be able to sop yourself farting - I was petrified, and had horrible visions of walking down the street farting uncontrolably (teriible thought)!!!!!
A childhood belief about farting

others believed things like this
- I was sad for many years because my aunt once told me I would go to hell for farting in church!— Tara
- I thought farting was magical wind, and if you did it loud and hard, you would be able to move yourself.— Blake
- I used to think that farting was flarting. Anon
- I used to believe that once you get older you stop farting.Anon
- I used to believe "flirting" was a girly way of "farting"— x
- I used to believe when I was three that when sausages sizzled it meant they were farting. Anon