my dad has always had a pretty severe alergy to poison ivy, and i thought that when he got poison ivy it made bubblegum grow out of his skin. i later learned that the medicine he put on to relieve the itch was just pink.
A childhood belief about being ill

others believed things like this
- When people talked about serial killers, I thought that they put poison in your cerealAnon
- When I was a kid My friend’s mom told me if I swallowed my bubblegum it would make me fart bubblegum bubblesAnon
- I used to believe the "hair" in artichokes was poison.— Dawn
- i used to think guns shot poison bulletsAnon
- i used to believe that when i had an itch or a tickle, it was because there were ants crawling beneath my skin— Willa
- I used to believe that if you sniffed a really stinky fart, it would poison your insides and die.— Fartcheeks