I sometimes used to have tonsil stones up until I got my tonsils out when I was 12. But I never knew what they were until a couple years ago (I'm 37 now); I had never even heard the term before, nor did I know they came from my tonsils (the doctor never even mentioned it)! Anyway, it embarrasses me to admit this, but up until age 8 or so I used to pick my nose and eat it (gross, I know -- I cringe when I think about it now). It was around the same time that I started getting tonsil stones, and up until I learned what they were and where they come from, I thought they were boogers that I had previously swallowed but somehow lodged in my esophagus and didn't make it all the way down to my stomach! I don't remember if it helped scare me into not eating my boogers, but my tonsil stones continued long after I had stopped that disgusting habit, and I never told anybody about it because I was embarrassed!
A childhood belief about picking my nose
others believed things like this
- One day i told my mom that i wouldnt pick my nose until the boogers made it look like i was a walrus— Lotta Thang
- I used to wonder why people didn't use his first name when they spoke of McJagger of the Rolling Stones.— silly me
- My sister told me not to touch hail stones because they were radioactive. — Mary K
- I used to beleive that if you swolled a tablet whole you would get kidney stones— kaye
- I was sure that Led Zeppelin was the lead singer of the Rolling Stones.— dave
- that the bears which live in the cracks between paving stones are Russian— jonah fonder