I was told that if I ever drank puddle water from the driveway I would get polio and have to live in an iron lung.
A childhood belief about water
others believed things like this
- that song that goes *bring me a higher love*
i thought it said *breathing in iron lung*— oi - When I was little, my mom told me that too much ice cream caused polio!— Angie
- My mom used to tell me that ice cream caused polio.Anon
- I used to believe that honey was made from bees' pee when they drank too much water.Anon
- I used to believe that a 'soul' was an organ of the human body, such as a kidney or lung. — Grace
- I used to believe that men drank beer and women drank wine. Anon