Until I was about 6, I believed that nobody farted except the people in my family, because I never heard anybody else fart. Then, one day, I was walking with my older brother and a friend of his, who farted out loud. That, literally, blew my belief away.
A childhood belief about farting

others believed things like this
- That only men farted. I literally started sobbing the first time I realized I farted.Anon
- I used to believe that my immediate family were the only people in the world that farted— Rainbow
- I used to believe that if you farted really hard, you could fart a hole in your pants. How dumb was that?— stargirl
- I used to believe that our family was the only family that farted.— Teri
- i believed that if you farted too much in a room and you were to light a flame your house would blow up— the nuclear fart
- I was about 6 and thought my family invented the fart because I never heard anyone outside my family do it.— Bob