When I was young, I thought that there was a scorpion-like creature that lived in the toilet plumbing so I spent as little time possible sitting on the toilet.
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that monsters lived in my toilet and they ate my poop and urine when i flushed the toilet.Anon
- I used to think you could get pregnant by sitting on a toilet seat.— Lisa
- I believed that if I swallowed my phlegm I would die. I spent hours spitting it out into the toilet.— chunky munky
- I used to think that my dad was "smoking pot" when he would smoke his pipe while sitting on the toilet. Anon
- I thought that toilet paper was bread and by puting it it the toilet i was feeding the ducks at the bottem.— Gringo
- When I was 8 I thought a spider lived in the toilet and would bite me if I sat on it.— Mike