I used to have phobia about seafood (shrimp, crabs, etc.) because I thought that they would slither up my face and crawl into one of my orifices. There it would proceed to nest and slowly eat my brain and lay eggs...
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that earwigs lived on earwax, and that they would crawl into my ear canal and eat my brain.— dodyskin
- I thought that Loch Ness was actually Loch Nest because it was like the monster's nest— Dietrich Corby
- I used to believe that only brown eggs came from chickens. I thought white eggs were made at the store— Destiny
- at the age of seventeen my sister thought another name for a pigeon hole was a birds nest.— Sophie
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that cadbury cream eggs real uncooked eggs in the middle Anon
- i thought the line "saving my face" from the KT Tunstall song of the same name was "shaving my face"Anon