my mum told me if u chewed a bit of bubble gum and u blew a bubble and if it popped in ur face it would blind u forever.i still do believe this and i have never ate a bit of bubble gum again.
A childhood belief about chewing gum

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I swallowed bubble gum, a bubble gum tree would grow inside of me. — Ryan
- I used to believe that the bubble gum medicine was really made of bubble gum. i believed this until i was 16.— Shawn
- I thought that "Doube Bubble Toil and Trouble" was "Doube Bubble, Toilet Trouble" Anon
- I was told as a kid that if you kept stuffing a Big Buddies (bubble gum)I would get lock jaw.— Dawn
- When I was young my mother told me that if I swallowed bubble gum, it would stick to my liver.— Barbie
- I used to believe that scars tasted like bubble gum— dani