I remember my mom told me once that if I ate dust I would grow bacteria in my stomach, but instead of bacteria (when I was telling all my friends on the play ground) I said cafeteria. :O Oops!
A childhood belief about eating
others believed things like this
- When i was younger i thought germs and bacteria were the same size as me— Tasha
- when i was 6 my mom told me that if you bit your nails a hand would grow in your stomachAnon
- i was told when i was young that if i swollowed gum my stomach would grow teeth to chew it— gammie
- Apparently, when I was little, I used to try and grow chickens by 'planting' their feathers in the ground.— Mat
- i used to believe that if i bit my fingernails then a finger would grow in my stomach— polly
- If you bite your nails, a hand will grow in your stomach.— Miss Laura