My Nan used to tell me Germans would destroy my teeth if I didn't brush them at night. For years I'd go to bed with visions of Nazi's bashing my teeth with their guns. Finally, aged around 8 I realised she was talking about germs.
At the same time I believed I had fleas living in my hair as my dad used to sit me down and break their backs with his nails. The sound of the nails cracking was pretty effective and I used to sit dead still while he spent several minutes saying: "Here's one, snap!' "Hold one! And another one!" Etc.
Finally, I was very confused as to why our neighbours, the Meek family, (three boys around my age who tortured earth worms) would inherit the earth. I used to glance at Robert during school assembly racking my brains trying to work out why they were the chosen ones.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I didn't brush my teeth at night, ants would crawl into my mouth and eat my teeth.Anon
- I used to believe that eating burnt toast would make your teeth whiter and would brush your teeth for you.— Natasha
- I used to believe when i was about 4 (now 15) that dinosours died because they didn't brush their teeth— gullable
- When I was very young, I assumed that false teeth were taken from dead people's teethAnon
- I used to think that cockroaches would visit your house if you didn't brush your teeth.Anon
- That bitng my nails would cause worms in my tummyAnon