general

When i was in about 3rd grade, i never washed my hands because i was afraid that the water would soak through my hands and go into my body and make me have to "go" again.

Becky

When I was little I had never been to the men's restroom, because my mom always took me in the ladie's restroom with her. Once we were at the store with her boyfriend, and he took me to the men's room. I had never seen a urinal before. I told my mom that her boyfriend had just peed in the sink!

Gary

For no reason I can remember when I was really little I believed Santa lived wherever the pipes in the toilet led to. I tried to write a Christmas list on toilet paper and flushed it to send it to him. I felt very sorry for him.

Anon

I thought that toilet seats were covers to stop men splashing etc and to keep the seat clean and that you sat on the cold bit. I continued to use toilets in this way until my late teens disgusted at the way other people failed to use the cover properly.

P Walker

I used to believe that the handicap symbol with the man sitting on the wheelchair was a man sitting on a toilet so I always got confused when I saw the handicap parking areas.

I don't know

I used to believe when you went to the bathroom in a plane it would drop out the bottom and land on the ground. I also believed that was what the sucking sound was when you flushed it.

Anon

I used to believe that the spider in our loo ate big juicy strawberries. I brought it one every morning and when I went back in the strawberry was gone. This was when I was 5, I have now found out that my gran removed the strawberry every morning. Devastated!

Cherise

My Dad told me that the Queen of England had a solid gold toilet and a special servant to wipe her backside.

Cat

I used to think when you flushed the toilet, it filtered all the bad stuff out and drained down to poor people who collected the water in cups.

Jake

When I was a little girl I thought that my poop came alive after I flushed the toilet and lived with my other poops in the pipes. I pictured a long condo type of world where there were big poops (daddy), all the way to the teeny poops which were babies. (I can't believe I'm actually sharing this after 30 odd years of keeping this to myself!!!) I thought that they lived a good life, happy to out of me and on their own. I thought of the different neighborhoods and my friends poops meeting my own.

I'm happy to say I grew up to be well adjusted and hadn't thought about this since I was a little girl. Reading these other submissions prompted me to share my own.

pooped out in CA

I used to think that when someone used the toilet in an airplane, the piss/poop went into the air. I was so embarrased to use the toilet and avoided it.

pam

I used to believe that if you sit on the toilet too long your legs will fall off. My dad told me this so i wouldn't spend too much time in the bathroom taking a poop, One time, I got off the toilet and looked at the back of my legs and saw the red marks from sitting down and I thought to myself, "Whew, that was as close one."

Moose

I used to think that in public toilets, the cleaning lady actually lived in the supply cupboard.

Anon

When I saw "WC" on a public toilet, I had no idea what it meant. The only thing I could think of was that it had something to do with W. C. Fields, so I decided that he must have invented the toilet, or something.

Anon

When I was 4-10, I used to believe there was a big crocodile living under my grandparents toilet. He'd only stay alive if I would feed him (..my poo, yes). We also had long conversations while I was on the toilet. I stopped believing in him (or maybe I never did, and he was just a way to fight boredom) when I figured out how to do the crossword puzzles in my grandmother's magazines.

Usagi

I don't know why I thought this when I was a kid, but i thought ever time I sat on the toilet, aliens would take that chance to abduct the rest of my family, except for me.

Nick

When I was little I used to believe that the water closet on a standard household toilet is where all the excrement went. It always felt kinda odd sitting next to all that filth while you did your business, and you could not pay me enough to open the lid. It wasn't until my dad had to fix the floater that I found out how it worked... but even then I remember standing at the door of the bathroom inching forward to see what was inside.

Rey

I used to believe that the toilet had "tides" and when it was on "low tide" you could go down the toilet and you would go into the sewers. To add to this i would only use toilets at 'safe' times, to avoid having to live in the sewers!

Ella

When I was younger, my sister convinced me that we could talk through different toilets around the house to each other. It became a sort of ritual - we would each go to different toilets in the house, bend over, and attempt to communicate secret messages to each other through the them, sort of like the idea of talking through walls. She also tortured me with the idea that she could hear me pee in one toilet through another toilet, so I was paranoid and bladder shy for quite a while.

communication through toilets

When I was little my mom used to but those things you put in the toilet to make the water turn blue. Well my brother once told me that it was make out of Smurf's (For those who don't know Smurfs are blue cartoon characters) and every time I would go it would make me cry.

Serena