I must have been about 7 years old when my mum told me that my dad had a gall stone. When I asked how he got it she replied that he had swallowed some grit while digging in the garden. She totally denies it now.
A childhood belief about being ill
others believed things like this
- 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 used to believe, when i was about 4 years old, that if you swallowed an ice cube you'd die. — Kritikaa
- I believed the urban legend that gum stayed in your stomach for 7 years if you swallowed it.— Lindsay
- When i was young, i used to believe that when i ate a stone, a tree would grow in my stomach— -yacine-91-
- When i was little my older brother said rocks grew in your poop, so i went digging and never found anyAnon
- I used to believe that every single slightly round stone r pebble was a fossilised dinosaur egg.— Dino Hunter