My Mum once told me that the ink in ball-point pens was poisonous, and that if I wrote on my skin, the poison would soak through the skin and kill me. I still believed it when I left university, and even today I never, ever, write phone numbers or reminders on the back of my hand (I'm 35). Old habits die hard...
A childhood belief about skin
others believed things like this
- In 'Call Me Maybe', I misheard 'Ripped jeans skin' as 'Rich cheese skin'. — Carly Rae Cheddar
- When I was 6 or 7, I believed that people could have yellow skin like in the simpsons— Noah
- when i was little my sister told me that when i bite my nails it would cut through my skin and i would die! — nn
- When I was little my dad told me that if you drank too much coffee it would make your skin turn black. Anon
- I used to believe that the dust at the top of doors was highly poisonous and could kill you.Anon
- My friend told me that if you sucked your thumb, your skin would get all mushy and your thumb would fall off.— Lauren