When I was little, my sister told me that if a cockroach bit me, I would get cancer and die. After that, whenever a cockroach was found in our house, I would pretend to be sick to make my parents take me to the doctor's.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- I thought Pink's "You make me sick" was "you make me sick, you make me look like a candlestick" LOL— Rice
- My mom told me if I picked my nose, I would get cancer.— xxXSaraXxx
- My sisters once told me if I blinked too much I would get cancer.
How mean... D:— Budster - My Gran told me that if I picked my nose, I´d get brain cancer. Traumatised? Yes I was!— Windy Girl
- Mom told us that if we didn't eat every single bite of our veggies at dinner time, we'd get colon cancer.Anon
- When I was younger I asked my parents:
"If bees make honey, do flys make marmalade?"— Mike