When I was younger I used to believe that mosquitoes liked to bite me because I had a lot of sugar in my blood from eating sweets.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- One time my brother asked my mom why mosquitoes bite. She said it was because children are bad.— sue
- Until recently I thought you could only get diabetes from eating too much sugar not just from being overweight— Tooken
- I used to believe that there was a shop in switzerland that sold bags of bogeys with sugar for eating— laura
- I thought that a "sugar daddy" was a father who let his kids eat all the sugar they wanted.Anon
- adding too much sugar to foods would give you "sugar worms"...
Anon - I used to believe that when cordial drink said 'sugar free' that you didnt have to pay for the sugar in it!— Grace Lyon New Addington