I have always been arachnaphobic. When I was a little kid, a spider fell down from the swingset I was on and landed on my hand; and I blame that. When I was about 7, I watched a TV show of an afternoon about a geenie who used to stuff up every wish asked of him. On one episode, the show being set in outback Australia, a woman said to a girl about to use an outdoor toilet, "Check the dunny (Aussie slang for toilet) for redbacks (a deadly Aussie spider), under the seat. A fellow only last week died of one that bit him on the bum" or something like that. Ever since, still to this day (at the age of 16) because I live in Australia, I have checked the underside of the toilet seat and the rim of the toilet for spiders before I have sat down. Until recently, I used to jump up in alarm when my leg got itchy.
A childhood belief about fear of
others believed things like this
- I used to think if I left the toilet seat open my cat would get flushed down the toilet.— G
- When I was 8 I thought a spider lived in the toilet and would bite me if I sat on it.— Mike
- I used to think you could get pregnant by sitting on a toilet seat.— Lisa
- I used to think that boy's lifted the toilet seat to pee because their asses were too big.— sydo
- I used to belive that if you didn't hold onto hte toilet seat you would fall in.— silly
- I used to want hemmoriods so I could use a "float tube" in the tub and have a cushy toilet seat like my dad.— Tami