I used to refuse to eat seeds because I thought they were radioactive (this was around the time of the Chernobyl disaster)
A childhood belief about seeds

others believed things like this
- I thought if something was radioactive it meant if you turn on a radio near it it would blow up— Nate
- When I was a child I thought that dogs can see ghosts but now I think that they can sense disaster— Steven Altamirano
- My sister told me not to touch hail stones because they were radioactive. — Mary K
- I believed that the astronauts from the Challenger disaster managed to survive by diving into the sea.— Claire
- Long grass with black seeds were really ant hotels, and the seeds were sleeping ants.— angelsheep
- I used to believe that if I swallowed watermelon seeds, I would get pregnantAnon