My mom would say i could poke my eye out with a pencil, and I thought that if you touched your eyeballs with any part of a pencil, your eye would fall right out of the socket.
A childhood belief about eyes
others believed things like this
- As a kid I used to believe that when you sharpened your pencil, the eraser on the pencil grew.Anon
- If you bit the end of a pen of pencil you would be poisoned by the lead or ink. Anon
- i was told that if you got stabbed with a pencil (by yourself or others) you would get lead poisoning.— waiting to die
- I used to believe that when your pencil ran out of eraser that if you sharpened it it would grow a new eraser— Nikkie
- when i was little, i thought that you could pull your eyeballs and wash them in your mouth— beak
- my brother used to believe that everybody except him could see their eyeballs— Matt