on chewing gum,
I think it was a thing in our hometown because not only my brother and family, but all my friends parents said the same thing. It takes 7 years to digest gum. It just slows everything down in your system and you will become deathly ill. I think I actually believed this until I was graduated.
A childhood belief about chewing gum

others believed things like this
- I believed for years that the sun and moon were the same thing - it just glowed more in the day :)— Deb
- i used to believe it took 7 years to digest gum— lorenn
- 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 thing that vikings lived 50 years ago.— Sigrid
- For about 3 years, I thought that chili and salsa were the same thing.Anon
- I believed the sun and the moon were the same thing, just rotated to change from day to night.— Daniel