I used to think that "explosive diarrhea" was when you pooped actual explosives, like nitroglycerin or whatever.
A childhood belief about weeing and pooing

others believed things like this
- I'm black, so as a child I used to assume that white people pooped peach the way I pooped brown.— Rick
- My nephew (age 7) thought tampons were plugs for diarrhea. Anon
- i thought that when you wet yourself and pooped your pants you would dieAnon
- I believed that chickens pooped eggs (male and female)— WHAT-A-Doodle-WHO??
- I used to think it was true that only ugly girls poop and I thought I was an ugly girl because I poopedAnon
- i used to think my grandmother's actual name was Gramma!— el kristadore!