I used to think that a toilet was called a potty, and I also thought a tub was called a bath, rather than those words referring to the actions. My parents always seemed to call them by those names, and they would only say "toilet" or "tub" if they were angry.
A childhood belief about bathrooms
others believed things like this
- I used to think people had a "potty mouth" if they had been drinking out of the toilet.Anon
- I thought that toilet paper was bread and by puting it it the toilet i was feeding the ducks at the bottem.— Gringo
- I used to believe that monsters lived in my toilet and they ate my poop and urine when i flushed the toilet.Anon
- I used to believe that if I flushed the toilet before I showered, I would take a shower in dirty toilet water.— Chris D
- I used to wander what my name would be in other languages. I thought that names worked the same way as words. — Simon
- I used to beleve when i was 4 that the flush on the toilet was to wake up toilet monsters.— Millie