For a good chunk of my childhood, I was extremely leery of taking baths, and when I did, I refused to put my head in the water. My reasoning? I was certain that the water could seep in through my ears and drown me by suffocating my brain.
A childhood belief about bathrooms
others believed things like this
- When I was young I refused to drink well water because I thought it came out of whales.— itodd
- I thought that hydrogen was pure water (since I knew hydro- meant water) and H2O was impure some how— Hexetic
- I used to believe that if i splashed water on the wall during a bath, the water would turn into spiders— justin
- that bathroom tap water was recycled "potty" water from the toliet. — livingdeadgirl
- ***I used to believe that water towers was a place that someone lived and they controlled the water.— C H R I S T E N
- I didn't think you could put out a fire with hot water - only cold water would do.— Katti Pytt