I used to think that gum stuck to your heart for seven years if you swallowed it. It didn't bother me...I kept on swallowing!
A childhood belief about chewing gum

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I swallowed chewing gum, it would wrap around my heart and strangle me— "Tusitala"
- I use to think i heart attack was when you got stuck in an elevator. I have no idea how i came to believe thisAnon
- The song called heart of glass mixed me up as a kid. I heard "Heart and ass". — oops
- i used to believe, when i was about 4 years old, that if you swallowed an ice cube you'd die. — Kritikaa
- I used to think that when people had heart attacks someone came and stabbed their heartAnon
- When I was five or six, I was worried that I'd lost my heart because I didn't hear it beating.Anon