I used to believe that if you kept eating and drinking, your body would fill up and you would die.
This was before I learned about the whole digestive/waste thing.
A childhood belief about eating
others believed things like this
- as a young child i thought poo was brown from eating chocolate and pee was yellow from drinking apple juice!Anon
- I thought a "cold sore" on your mouth was the same thing as "coleslaw" and so avoided eating it for years.— Helen (UK)
- I used to think water towers were where everyone's uh...waste...went to from the toilets.— Stephanie
- I used to believe that when you flushed an aeroplane toilet the waste would just drop out of the plane.Anon
- I used to believe eating fish enables me to live underwater and eating veggy makes me prettier!— Melody
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California