When I was about 11years old, my science teacher told me that if you chewed gum it would give you stomach ulcers and I believed this for years afterwards. About a year ago a friend of mine (who happens to be a science teacher) offered me gum, when I told him about my belief, he said that I would have to chew gum for weeks, non-stop for it to cause an ulcer. However, although I now know the truth, I am still afraid to chew gum!
A childhood belief about chewing gum
others believed things like this
- I was told that if you chew your hair you end up with a hairball in your stomach and DIE!!!!!— Cat
- i was told when i was young that if i swollowed gum my stomach would grow teeth to chew it— gammie
- i used to beleive that if you chewed gum it woul give you warts in your mouth my sister told me this— sunney jim of the pearl
- I thought when you chew gum and you swallot it you would choke and die o_o— Courtney
- I thought i had to chew my food 27 times before i could swallow because Stephanie said it on Full HouseAnon
- 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