When I was little I used to eat huge amounts of ketchup by itself all the time. Then my uncle told me I would get brain damage if I kept it up. I waited for years for the onset of the brain damage before I figured I was ok.
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- i was always told if i picked my nose my brain would fall out! i belived it for years!Anon
- my mom told not to pick my nose because if i fell i would poke my brain.— brent
- My Gran told me that if I picked my nose, I´d get brain cancer. Traumatised? Yes I was!— Windy Girl
- When I was little my uncle had a huge adams apple. He told me he'd swallowed a marble.— Stacey
- When I was little, I used to believe that snot was brain juice.Anon
- I used to believe that people who wear glasses did had a second brain!— Onessa