Until the age of 12, I was convinced that video games literally turned your brains to mush, which would then dribble out of your nose until you became really really stupid. I taunted/warned my best friend's brothers with this, but they just laughed and I never really considered that they might be right!
A childhood belief about computer games

others believed things like this
- I used to believe if you picked your nose, your brains would fall out your nose.Anon
- When I was a child my father warned me that if i picked my nose, my eye would fall out!— ras
- my mum once told me if you picked your nose your brains came out!!!!— smiley : )
- if you pick your nose your brains will fall out!Anon
- When I was a child I used to believe that when I played video games my real world changed like the game. — J
- My wife used to tell our kids that if you pick your nose your brains would fall out— grampy