my grandmother told me that when you go "number 2", if you push you'd burst things in your head and die on the toilet. so as a little girl, it took me forever to go to the bathroom because i was afraid i'd die.
A childhood belief about weeing and pooing

others believed things like this
- Grandmother told me if I whistled in the bathroom the devil would come get me because I was whistling for him.— Peanut @ Lake Tawakoni Tx
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- I used to be afraid that "boney Legs", a witch from a story Lived in the toilet. Anon
- i used to be scared to use the bathroom becuase i believed something lived in the toilet.— robert allen freeman the fourth
- My mom always told me if I made an ugly face it would stay that way forever.Anon
- My sister told me that Fraggles lived in our basement. I used to sit down there forever so I could see them. — Suzie