I used to think that people could only eat so much before the food would come back out of their mouth's, and that this was the reason that people were overweight, the food had come out and they shoved it back down and made their stomach bigger making them look fatter.
A childhood belief about eating

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that overweight people were heavy because they didn't poop.Anon
- when i was a lil kid i used to think salt was dead lice that people but on there food and i never knew why
— jessica diamond - I used to belive that there were tiny people in vending machines that gave you your food.— Meah
- I always believed as a child your stomach was a big hand which squeezed your food out through your bum....— amc
- We put food in our mouths, so naturally I believed my stomach was in my head.— Timb
- I use to believe that salt would cool food down while pepper would heat your foodAnon