I used to believe that you could literally waste your breath. If you talked too much, someday you would just run out of air and die.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- If you hold your breath and make a wish under a highway tunnel it will come true....I still hold my breath :)— aj
- I used to think water towers were where everyone's uh...waste...went to from the toilets.— Stephanie
- My mom told me that if I picked my nose, my finger would stay there someday!!— baxter
- I used to believe that when you flushed an aeroplane toilet the waste would just drop out of the plane.Anon
- When i was litle i used to think i only had to breath when i wanted to.— molly
- when i was a little kid. i used to think that when u hold ur breath ur heart stops.. LOL :P — Annonymus