I used to believe the "lead" inside pencils was real lead and thus was deadly poisonous. In school, I would never touch the poit of a pencil, and I would only hold paper I had written on by the edges. I think I did this till I was 9.
A childhood belief about classes
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that people got lead poisoning from being stabbed (accidentally) with pencils.Anon
- If you bit the end of a pen of pencil you would be poisoned by the lead or ink. Anon
- i was told that if you got stabbed with a pencil (by yourself or others) you would get lead poisoning.— waiting to die
- I used to think that mere marrying will lead to child birth,till i was 10.— dan
- I used to believe that Prince was the lead singer of Queen— Garrett
- I used to believe that if you jump in a toilet, they lead you to another dimension.— beep.