I used to believe that the liquid that causes glowsticks to glow was radioactive and would kill me if I got it on my skin. My mother took my friend and I to a carnival when we were about 7 and kept breaking them to make ourselves glow. Not wanting it to stain our clothes, she told us that any more would kill us if we touched it. I didn't want to go near a glowstick until 4 years later when my 6th grade science teacher said otherwise.
A childhood belief about chemistry
others believed things like this
- my best friend was so pale i thought she could glow in the dark— tattiebird
- i used to think that eating carrots would make your eyes glow in the dark— nik
- I believed that if I ate Ready Brek, I'd glow like in the TV ad. — Why Aren't I Glowing?
- I used to believe that after eating Ready Brek I would glow, but that only adults could see it.— michelle
- I used to think that a "carnival barker" was a person who barks like a dog at a carnival.Anon
- I used to believe that when I went to sleep, my Barbie dolls would make out and plot to kill me.— ClaireRat