i used to believe that when you ate something it stayed in your stomach for ever. it just lined the walls. and when your stomach filled up, you died.
A childhood belief about eating

others believed things like this
- I believed the urban legend that gum stayed in your stomach for 7 years if you swallowed it.— Lindsay
- I thought a stomach ache was a stomach egg— Catherine
- My Mom used to tell us that if you bit your fingernails, they would cut a hole in your stomach.— Linda B
- I use to believe that if I ate to much sugar just by itself, it would become worms inside my stomach.Anon
- I used to think that if I ate sugar out of the sugarbowl I would get worms in my stomach.— Arc
- i used to believe that if i bit my fingernails then a finger would grow in my stomach— polly