I had a very strange thing about toilets... when I was very young in my mother's exercise class, I was in the child care in the back by the bathrooms and one of the toilets got clogged, but instead of just quietly overflowing, it made this really loud noise and was squirting water everywhere. I thought it was a monster, and to make matters worse since I was the oldest kid there I had to go up in front of all the exercising ladies and tell the instructor about it while the child care lady tried to turn off the water. After that I was terrified of sitting on or standing next to a toilet when I flushed it, I'd stand up and step away, reach allll the way over to flush, and then run away. This was particularly difficult in bathroom stalls where the door opened inward.
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- I used to think water towers were where everyone's uh...waste...went to from the toilets.— Stephanie
- when I was little, I used to think that everyone was a child but someone invented adults to take care of us.— chocolate
- I used to believe that if I flushed the toilet before I showered, I would take a shower in dirty toilet water.— Chris D
- I used to think that in public toilets, the cleaning lady actually lived in the supply cupboard.Anon
- I used to beleive that if you flushed the toilet that it would explode and all the water would shoot out.— Michelle
- I used to think that the sound after the toilet was flushed was ladies singingAnon