i always thought that if you swalled chewing gum you would turn into it.
A childhood belief about chewing gum

others believed things like this
- i used to beleive that if you swalled gum it would give you chiken pox— nose picker
- my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.— stuart hayward
- I thought you could die from chewing gum while in the shower.— Hollow Head
- I thought for some reason that chewing tobacco was REQUIRED for Major League Baseball players.— Jeff
- When I was young, I thought that when you turn the blinkers on in the car, it made the car turn.— Cassidy
- i used to think boogers were chewing gum. Gross, i know!— ediop