When I was little, I used to think that you didn't really digest food. You just had a certain amount of room in your stomach, and if you filled it up, it would come out of your mouth.
A childhood belief about eating
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that as I ate food, I filled up, and that once I filled up completely, I would die. Anon
- I used to believe that if I slept with my mouth open that spiders would crawl in there and live in my stomachAnon
- I always believed as a child your stomach was a big hand which squeezed your food out through your bum....— amc
- We put food in our mouths, so naturally I believed my stomach was in my head.— Timb
- my cousin uded to belive that hiccups were caused by the food in your stomach colliding.— Christine
- i used to believe it took 7 years to digest gum— lorenn