i was told that if you got stabbed with a pencil (by yourself or others) you would get lead poisoning.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that people got lead poisoning from being stabbed (accidentally) with pencils.Anon
- If you bit the end of a pen of pencil you would be poisoned by the lead or ink. Anon
- As a kid I used to believe that when you sharpened your pencil, the eraser on the pencil grew.Anon
- I use to think when i was little that seiral killers stabbed cherrios.— Nat
- I used to think that when people had heart attacks someone came and stabbed their heartAnon
- I thought when you got food poisoning it might someone had put poison in your food— Bootlebat