When I was around 4 or 5, I liked to peel the paint off of the walls. My mom told me that paint had lead in it, and I could get lead poisoning if I kept at it. I believed her until I was 14. I was afraid to touch the walls!
A childhood belief about around the house
others believed things like this
- i was told that if you got stabbed with a pencil (by yourself or others) you would get lead poisoning.— waiting to die
- I used to believe that people got lead poisoning from being stabbed (accidentally) with pencils.Anon
- I believed God lived in a specific crack in one of the walls of my church — Blake
- I once believed that the walls and ceilings were completely jam packed with plumbing and wiring.— David
- I used to believe that if you mixed red, blue, green, and yellow paint you'd get plaid!— Judith Ann
- My sister once asked her mother why she didn't paint her black....Anon