Somewhere between the ages of 4 and 6, I linked the concept of my Grandfather's death (he died before I was born) and the fact that dead people were gone forever. I had heard people say that Grandpa "died young" (in his mid-40's, but I didn't know that) so I started to worry that I was going to die soon and wonder what sign I would have that it was going to happen.
Somehow I determined that if you pooped and peed at the same time, that meant you were going to die. A small bout of diarhea scared the hell out of me!
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- I used to think that if you were scared "half to death" that you only had one scare left before you died.— Bush Hiddenofsky
- I used to think that "cross-eyed" meant that people had X's for eyes, like dead people in cartoons.— Tim
- I'm black, so as a child I used to assume that white people pooped peach the way I pooped brown.— Rick
- When I will little I use to believe my mum would be around forever - she died when I was 13.— wn
- Turtles can fly. I believed it for ages.
My turtle got lost or probably died and I was told it flew away.Anon