When I was 7 I believed that swallowed gum would stay in my stomach forever. I also believed that the fingernail bits I chewed off and swallowed stayed in my stomach forever. I sometimes lay in bed with a feeling of dread, imagining a huge, mutant ball of mingled gum and fingernails getting bigger and bigger until it would burst out of my stomach! (Good thing Alien was still decades in the future!)
A childhood belief about chewing gum
others believed things like this
- I believed the urban legend that gum stayed in your stomach for 7 years if you swallowed it.— Lindsay
- When my mom would say that my eyes were bigger than my stomach I thought she meant it literally.— Amanda
- my mom made me believe that if i swallowed my chewing gum, it would form one big wad in my stomach.— mimi
- i used to believe that if i swallowed beens,,a tree would grow in my stomach :P— fatma
- i used to believe that if you swallowed gum, when you breathed in, your stomach would stick to your back— cope
- I thought that if I swallowed grapestones, a tree would grow out from my stomach. — Tone