I used to believe that people got lead poisoning from being stabbed (accidentally) with pencils.
A childhood belief about being ill

others believed things like this
- i was told that if you got stabbed with a pencil (by yourself or others) you would get lead poisoning.— waiting to die
- When I was little I thought "Pencilvania" was a huge store that sold pencils and nothing but pencils.— Tim
- I used to think that when people had heart attacks someone came and stabbed their heartAnon
- I use to think when i was little that seiral killers stabbed cherrios.— Nat
- i used to believe you couldn't draw on erasers with pencils because it would erase itself— Samantha
- I used to think the entire state of Pennsylvania was made out of pencils.— Pencil-vania