When I was little I had this fear of snakes living in the sewer. So I thought they could swim up into the toilet and bite you while you were sitting on it. So I always squatted above the toilet. I would never directly sit on the toilet seat.
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- I used to think you could get pregnant by sitting on a toilet seat.— Lisa
- I used to think if I left the toilet seat open my cat would get flushed down the toilet.— G
- I thought there was a beaver living in the toilet that would bite me if I wasn't ever vigilant. — Camille
- I used to believe that toilet seats were for kids only and that adults sat directly on the bowl. — Evan Klyne
- I thought that toilet paper was bread and by puting it it the toilet i was feeding the ducks at the bottem.— Gringo
- When I was 8 I thought a spider lived in the toilet and would bite me if I sat on it.— Mike