I used to believe that when you ate, the food just built up in your body and you died when you got all filled up. I was terrified of eating too much because I didn't want to fill up too fast and die.
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 was told when I was little that eating too much salt on your food would "dry up your blood".Anon
- I'm autistic, and I used to believe taking some of my sister's food while she was eating it was sharing.Anon
- I used to beleive, that if you swallowed a seed the food would grow in your body.Anon
- When i was younger i believed that when you died your soul use to go into a monkeys body— Ríoghnach
- I used to think the song "Who Built the ark? Noah. Noah." was "Who built the Ark? No one, no one!"— Embarrassed Kent Girl