When I was about six I overheard my dad telling my brother about sex. I just remember standing there with my hand on my stomach, thinking, "I have *eggs* in there? Can I break them if I jump? Do I have to lay them? How do they come out?"
A childhood belief about reproduction
others believed things like this
- I used to only sleep on my back because I thought I would break my ribs if I slept on my stomach.— Molly
- If you bite your nails, a hand will grow in your stomach.— Miss Laura
- when i was 6 my mom told me that if you bit your nails a hand would grow in your stomachAnon
- I used to believe that if I bit my finger nails, a hand would grow in my stomach. Anon
- For a while, I thought hand grenades were called "hen grenades" and they were made of rotten eggs.— Athazagoraphobia
- I always believed as a child your stomach was a big hand which squeezed your food out through your bum....— amc