Like many men I started getting erections while I was still young. As a child, this scared and confused me and, for some reason, I used to believe that if you poured water on it, it would shrink back down. I don't know how I came up with this.
A childhood belief about rude bits

others believed things like this
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know
- When I was a little kid, I believed that erections were caused by the need to urinate.Anon
- As a small child I always confused someone being unconcious with someone being dead.— Rick
- i used to think mushrooms made you shrink— deanna
- When I was young I used to believe if you died in the water, you'd become a mermaid.— stefanie
- When I was young I used to believe for some reason that being asthmatic meant you were born with no lungs.Anon