I was always told not to swallow toothpaste when brushing my teeth. Naturally I came to assume that the product was poisonous and I vowed never to touch the stuff again. I got over this fear a few years later but the damage to my dental record will never be undone...
A childhood belief about bathrooms
others believed things like this
- my mom told my sister and I that if you swallow gum, it won't leave ur stomach for 7 years.— Victoria
- Until I was around 8 or 9 years old, I thought dentists took your teeth out and replaced them with new teeth.— Verapamilo
- I used to beleive if your belly button came undone all the air would go out of your body and you would die.— kate
- I used to believe that if your belly button came undone your skin would fall off! Anon
- I used to think a world record was a record of all the people in the world singing .— JACK REGAN . [SWEENEY . ]
- My older sister told me squirrels were poisonous, and I believed her until I was 9.— Jenni