My grandpa died when i was four and my mom told me he died of cancer and i pictured dying of cancer as him sitting in a pot that you hang on the porch with flowers in it, on the ground in the middle of a field.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- My mom told me if I picked my nose, I would get cancer.— xxXSaraXxx
- My sisters once told me if I blinked too much I would get cancer.
How mean... D:— Budster - My Gran told me that if I picked my nose, I´d get brain cancer. Traumatised? Yes I was!— Windy Girl
- Mom told us that if we didn't eat every single bite of our veggies at dinner time, we'd get colon cancer.Anon
- I used to believe that you could get cancer from looking in the microwave while it was running.— Kayla
- I use to believe that when I lost hair that I had cancerAnon