When I was 4 or 5, my cousins had me absolutely convinced that if you touched a fish's eye with your finger, the eyeball would explode.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I once believed that if you touched hamburger meat, it would explode!— Dipaloe
- I thought pink wafer biscuits would bite me if I touched them. Absolutely no idea why.Anon
- My sister ate fish food one day and she was convinced that she was going to grow scales— leohauoli
- My sister convinced me that tapioca was made with fish eyeballs.— Eileen
- I used to believe that a fish cake was a fish in sponge and coated in icing. I believed this until I was 9.Anon
- i used to beleive the ice cream man was a fish man - becuase i hated fish.— jordan