When i was in preschool I never wanted to wash my hands until one day I heard that if you dont wash your hands, worms will pop out of them and start squirming around.
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- My uncle told me that if I didn't wash my ears when I took a bath, corn would start going out of them.— Ebod
- I used to think that conditioner was to wash the shapoo outAnon
- I used to believe that if I didnt wash behind my ears, they'd fall off...— Karina
- Until I was 8 I used to believe that if clothing went into the wash more than once it would turn into gold.— Ben
- if you have freckles it is because you didnt wash your face well enoughAnon
- i used to believe that the "coin wash" was to clean my dirty pennies.— rmutt