When I was younger, after I went to the bathroom I wouldn't wash my hands, because I thought after you flushed the toilet, it would wake up the monsters that lived under the toilet, and they would come out. So, after I flushed the toilet, I would run out of the bathroom. I must've had bad hygiene...
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that monsters lived in my toilet and they ate my poop and urine when i flushed the toilet.Anon
- I used to beleve when i was 4 that the flush on the toilet was to wake up toilet monsters.— Millie
- 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 if I left the toilet seat open my cat would get flushed down the toilet.— G
- i used to be scared to use the bathroom becuase i believed something lived in the toilet.— robert allen freeman the fourth
- I used to believe that the toilet would suck me down if I flushed it.— :-)