Before the age of six, I thought that pooping had absolutely nothing to do with your digestive system or eating and that it was just this pointless thing your body did. Boy was I surprised when I saw that episode of the Magic School Bus!
A childhood belief about weeing and pooing

others believed things like this
- I thought a "cold sore" on your mouth was the same thing as "coleslaw" and so avoided eating it for years.— Helen (UK)
- I thought the mole on my arm was from a bug pooping on my arm a long time agoAnon
- My brother used to be scared to poop in the potty. He thought that he was pooping out his bones.— Lillyth
- When i was a kid, i thought that nematodes would eat our house like in one episode of SpongeBobAnon
- when I was small I always thought that the solar system ended, and then it was just white paper after that— sparrow
- i used to think that when i was pooping a crocodile could come out of the toilet and bite my butt off.— derek