When I was in infant school I had a friend named Robert whose mum was a nurse. Robert had a lot of bad habits so she used to tell him lies to make him stop. I distinctly remember him coming to school looking very worried, because he'd heard that if you did false burps then your chest would split open. To back up this lie his mum added that she'd just been treating a 75-year-old man who'd had to have surgery as a result of doing false burps. Everyone in the class believed it for ages.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I was once told by a friend at school that if you sneeze you actually die for a split second.— Alex
- When I was in elementary school, I believed my heart moved across my chest throughout the day.— Allison
- When I was very young, I assumed that false teeth were taken from dead people's teethAnon
- When I was in elementary school I use to think that teacher lived at school at their desks all year long.Anon
- I remember back in sunday school that if you stomped on the ground you would hurt satan. Anon
- I used to think that doctors added plastic to your face in plastic surgery.— caro