My brother, who was a year ahead of me in school and I thought at the time much smarter, told me when I was in about first or second grade that if you bit your tongue really hard, it would create an electric current through your body and if ants tried to bite you, it would kill them!! I only needed a couple of ant bites to disprove his theory!!
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that ants walked inside your body and that's what caused an itch.Anon
- i used to believe that the hard toe caps on rugby boots were made from giant ants found in the amazon!— eryll
- When I was a child, I used to think that one day my brother and I would be in the same grade at school.— Alexis Yahir López
- One time my brother asked my mom why mosquitoes bite. She said it was because children are bad.— sue
- I used to believe that slugs were deadly and they would bite you and kill you. 0_o Where did I get that idea?— What was I thinking?
- I used to think that I was smarter than adults. Now I know kids are smarter than adults in many ways— Marshall M