when i was 5 or 6 my sister told me that if i stayed on the toilet to long a HUGE snake would come out of that little hole thing and eat me.when i took a poo, i timed myself for five minutes on one of those egg timers.i think my mom thought i was a little stupid for doing that.
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I sat on the toilet too long a snake would come up and bite me.— Cheesemonkey
- When I was little I thought that if I stayed a long time in the water I would become a mermaid.— Salma
- I thought that a quarter hour was 25 minutes long, since a quarter was worth $0.25.— Crystal
- at the age of seventeen my sister thought another name for a pigeon hole was a birds nest.— Sophie
- I used to believe if you stayed in water too long your skin would get really wrinkled and stay that way.Anon
- I was certain that rain was created by God having a pee and flushing his huge toilet above us— Emma H