When I was about 5 years old, I had chewing gum for the first time, and I was told I couldn't swallow it. However, I ended up swallowing it anyway, and concluded that I was the only person who could swallow gum and that I was smarter than everyone else, because they couldn't swallow gum.
A couple of years later, my brother told me that if you swallow chewing gum, it stayed in your stomach for seven years, and I believed him. I was then terrified of swallowing gum, and I counted how many years it would take before the gum I'd previously swallowed would come out...
A childhood belief about chewing gum
others believed things like this
- my mom told my sister and I that if you swallow gum, it won't leave ur stomach for 7 years.— Victoria
- My grandpa told me when I was little that if you swallow chewing gum your butt will be sticky— Lili
- I used to believe that if I swallow chewing gum, a rubber tree will grow on my head!— Farry Aprianto
- I used to believe that i couldn't swallow bubble gum because it would stick to my stomach— Nathalia
- my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.— stuart hayward
- My dad always told me never to swallow the pips from apples because trees would start growing in my stomach!!— ALISON W