My mother told me that if you pick up an ant and turn him around he will wander around lost forever. I stopped playing with ants and believed this till well inmy adult life.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- i used to believe airplanes never land and would just fly forever, i believed in this till 8-9— Tuncay
- When I was little my mother told me that the chocolate sprinkles you put on ice-cream were ants.Anon
- my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.— stuart hayward
- I used to believe that if you left crumbs out for a long period of time, they would turn into ants.— Bylaberrie
- I used to believe that my life was a video game with only 1 life and that God was playing it. — Rina
- I used to believe that if you drank coffee before you were an adult, your skin would turn gray. Anon