When my brother was little, he could never sit down, even to eat. My mother told him that if he stood while eating, all the food would go to his feet and they would get huge, but he wouldn't grow an inch. She told me, too, but I always sat anyway
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A childhood belief about eating

others believed things like this
- I was told when I was little that eating too much salt on your food would "dry up your blood".Anon
- When I was younger, I thought my brother kept eating my dirty socks, and that's why his feet smelled.— Kail
- When I was little, I used to believe that people REALLY DID need a pinch to grow an inch.— Marjorie McNaughton
- my older brother told me that if i didnt clean every bit of dirt out of the prints on my feet, i'd die— chel
- My mother told me that if I kept sucking my thumb I would grow another one out the side of the first one.Anon
- My mother told me when i was 5 that Santa wouldn't come if i kept sucking my thumb. — Traumatized