After seeing the Stephen King movie 'It', I would sometimes get spooked when going to the bathroom. I kept thinking that the clown with the jagged teeth was going to come up out of the toilet and do something awful to my private parts.
A childhood belief about fear of
others believed things like this
- When I was a child, I used to believe that armpits were private parts— Duda Gueiros
- I used to believe that eating burnt toast would make your teeth whiter and would brush your teeth for you.— Natasha
- I used to believe that if I didn't brush my teeth at night, ants would crawl into my mouth and eat my teeth.Anon
- Until I was about 8 I believed that your back teeth keep growing in until you have a full circle of teeth.Anon
- When I was very young, I assumed that false teeth were taken from dead people's teethAnon
- When I was a boy I flushed my fish down the toilet thinking that it would go to its mommy and daddy.— Jeremy Clark