Once when I was about 9 or 10, I thought I had maggots in my mouth. I went up to my teacher and said to her 'I've got maggots in my mouth' and the whole class burst out laughting. I'm now 30 and can't for the life of me remember what made me think I had maggots in my mouth.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- I thought that gnats were baby flies, then one day I found out about maggots. yuck— Felicia
- I used to belive that if i put my foot in my mouth, I would get foot-and-mouth illness— Emily Sathrota
- when i was little, i thought that you could pull your eyeballs and wash them in your mouth— beak
- i used to belive that when the doctor opened his mouth and went aaaaaa i thought he was trying to eat me.— matt
- i used to believe that if you farted out of your mouth, you'd die.— John Deere
- I thought a "cold sore" on your mouth was the same thing as "coleslaw" and so avoided eating it for years.— Helen (UK)