For years my brother simply refused to use the toilet and no-one knew why. Whenever we went on trips he would say he didn't need to go and then Mum would find him sqatting in a park garden! It was only when he was about nineteen that we finally discovered that it was our Aunt's fault - at my grandparents house there was a frog in the toilet and she had warned him that it might jump up and bite his bum, thus instilling a crippling fear of toilets in my young, trusting brother.
A childhood belief about fear of
others believed things like this
- 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 scoripons could crawl up your toilet and pull you in.
No thanks to my big brother!— Alexandra - when i was little i told my brother that when it rained it was gods toilet overflowing— Lisa J
- I used to believe that if you jump in a toilet, they lead you to another dimension.— beep.
- I used to believe that if I sat on the toilet too long a snake would come up and bite me.— Cheesemonkey
- I used to believe that crocodiles lived in the toilet and would bite my butt when I had to go to the loo.— Oz