When I was about 10 I learned about sharks, and they terrified me. To this day I have trouble swimming in deep water (including fresh water - hey, you never know!).
But when I was little I thought all water was kept inside the world, in like a big resevoir, and I grew convinced that a shark could come up my toilet and bite my bum. I became very speedy in using the loo, and to this day I don't linger there. For some reason I wasnt' afraid of any other creature getting up the toilet pipes, only sharks.
A childhood belief about fear of
others believed things like this
- Waves are whales and sharks moving up and down under the waterAnon
- One day when I was 6 I learned that the toilet was NOT a water cooler. :/— J.C.
- I used to believe that if I flushed the toilet before I showered, I would take a shower in dirty toilet water.— Chris D
- i used to believe there were invisible sharks in the deep end of the pool, thanks to my older brother.— Melissa
- I used to beleive that if you flushed the toilet that it would explode and all the water would shoot out.— Michelle
- I thought that hydrogen was pure water (since I knew hydro- meant water) and H2O was impure some how— Hexetic