As a kid I refused to use toilets with those little half-circle fresheners that hooked on the side. They looked scary, they smelled scary, and they had me in a very vulnerable position.
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that unless you got married, you had to become a nun! Scary!Anon
- i used to belive dieing was scary!!!Anon
- Every old person I met smelled bad, and I thought old people smelled bad because they were slowly rotting.— Jasmine
- I used to believe that Marilyn Manson was a extremely scary woman!— Tim_NOrway
- I thought the Til Tuesday song said "Books are scary!", rather than "Voices Carry"Anon
- I used to believe that a morman was a scary person who lived underground(actually called a moleman).— Mike