My mother once said that if I watch an animal poop, I would go blind. I was definitely old enough to know this was a lie at the time but I certainly have never risked it.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I actually asked my mother if mixing girls' poop and boys' poop would cause an explosion.— kraine
- I used to believe that if you had a pee AND a poop at exactly the same time, then you would die— ange
- I thought for a long time that beaver and badger are the same animal— Ted Snow
- I used to think for a very long time, that spam was left over animal parts with salt.— Ebony
- I used to believe that blind dates were dates for people who were blind.Anon
- My poop was always around the same color as my skin so I assumed white people's poop was white.— jaycee