My mother convinced me for most of my childhood that if I didn't pee when I had to, I would explode...just like her "friend" Susie! Years later, she admitted she made it all up just so my sisters and I would go to the bathroom before we left the house.
A childhood belief about weeing and pooing

others believed things like this
- When I was little, I believed that if I didn't go to the bathroom quick enough, I would actually explode.— Coco S.
- That blue cheese was made by scraping mould off bathroom walls. My mother actually told me that.— sandee
- a friend was convinced that his school was an asylum, and couldn't be convinced otherwiseAnon
- My Dad told me that Soy Sauce was made of grasshopper spit! I didn't eat it for YEARS!— TawnyKat
- I never had a make believe friend but my sister used to tell me I DID but he left cause I was really BORING.— Jamie
- When I was about 6 or 7, I had an imaginary friend, who left for ice-cream one night. He never returned.— His name was Jimmy