when I was younger i was very paranoid at being shot. So when I'd go up the stairs into the dark I'd hold a pillow infront of my chest (like that'd help) and I was terrified of sitting on a toilet because I thought a man would shove his arm up the pipe and shoot my bum :P, man was I ever paranoid.
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- I used to think that my dad was "smoking pot" when he would smoke his pipe while sitting on the toilet. Anon
- I used to believe that it was the law to hold the railing when you're walking down/up stairs— Brit
- I used to beleive that if you flushed the toilet that it would explode and all the water would shoot out.— Michelle
- I used to belive that if you didn't hold onto hte toilet seat you would fall in.— silly
- I used to think you could get pregnant by sitting on a toilet seat.— Lisa
- When I was younger I used to believe that the darker your skin was, the dark your shadow would be.— Mary S.