I was terrified of using the toilet or taking a shower for the longest time because of the Goosebumps episode with the talking dummy. The reason: towards the end of teh show, the dummy was in the bathroom air duct and released some sort of green gas that made the person in there turn into a dummy.
Like many others with bathroom fears, I would perform many flush-and-runs until the age of 11, along with record breaking showers.
A childhood belief about fear of
others believed things like this
- i used to be scared to use the bathroom becuase i believed something lived in the toilet.— robert allen freeman the fourth
- I thought that Samson and Solomon from the Bible were the same person for the longest time...— Laura G.
- My brother (who was 6 at the time) would never flush the toilet in fear of our new house being blown up! Anon
- I used to believe that if I flushed the toilet before I showered, I would take a shower in dirty toilet water.— Chris D
- That blue cheese was made by scraping mould off bathroom walls. My mother actually told me that.— sandee
- I used to beleve when i was 4 that the flush on the toilet was to wake up toilet monsters.— Millie