I used to take my gum out of my mouth before I went to the bathroom because I thought it might get sucked down and out somehow.
A childhood belief about weeing and pooing

others believed things like this
- someone told me that if u go to the bathroom on the toielt you would get sucked inn..— terrified child
- i thought that when you were in the bath you would get sucked down the drain— blake
- i thought that if you sucked yerr thumb long enough it would turn green. dont ask why! — jordan
- In old west lore, Billy the Kid was called 'buck toothed'. I thought this was because he sucked his thumb. — Monty
- I used to belive that if i put my foot in my mouth, I would get foot-and-mouth illness— Emily Sathrota
- when i was little, i thought that you could pull your eyeballs and wash them in your mouth— beak