when I was younger, whenever my mother was cleaning the bathroom, to keep us out she'd tell us that the bleach she used would burn our skin like acid. I believed this for 4 years; bleach still scares me a bit!
A childhood belief about bathrooms
others believed things like this
- i used to think tha if you went outside when it was acid raining the rain would burn holes in your skin— fear of rain
- I used to think that bleaching your hair meant washing your hair with toilet bleach.Anon
- I used to be terrified of fire-flys because I believed they would burn if they landed on me.— kevin
- When I was younger I used to believe that the darker your skin was, the dark your shadow would be.— Mary S.
- When I was younger, I used to think that people with different colored skin had different color poops.— Samuel
- When I was a kid I heard that the Beatles did acid and I wondered if they melted from it.Anon