When I was little I was trying to catch a squirrel and my mom said that they were bad for you to touch. I spent many years thinking that squirrels were covered in a deadly poison and you would drop dead if you touched one.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that worms were the lips of the dead and that green pepper seeds were deadly poison.— Gayle
- i believed that carrots with milk was a deadly poison until i was 11.— Jennifer
- When I was 4 or so I believed if you touched a dead person you'd die too.— anonymous
- When i was little, i use to believe that mountains where actually dead dinosaurs covered in dirt. — Patricia
- My older brother told me that speed bumps were really dead people covered in cement.— Trina
- i used to believe "eaves drop" was actually "ears drop"— sophie