When I was small I'd asked my mom what periods were she'd replied,"When you get stomach cramps." So I thought that it was something like a stomach ache that you get when you eat bad food. So I didn't eat out till I was 12 and my poor teacher had to explain all that to me!
A childhood belief about eating
others believed things like this
- I thought a stomach ache was a stomach egg— Catherine
- I always believed as a child your stomach was a big hand which squeezed your food out through your bum....— amc
- We put food in our mouths, so naturally I believed my stomach was in my head.— Timb
- my cousin uded to belive that hiccups were caused by the food in your stomach colliding.— Christine
- My teacher told me one time~when I ate the unpopped popcorn, the unpopped popcorn would pop in my stomach.— Petra
- I thought that if I swallowed grapestones, a tree would grow out from my stomach. — Tone