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In my early school years, we only had round tipped plastic safety scissors that could barely cut tissue paper. As a kid, I was terrified at the degree of responsibility and potential to take another kid's life those scissors represented.

The adults in charge when I was a kid had us convinced that if we ran with scissors in our hands we were going to kill the other children in the vicinity by accident in the most horrifically bloody and violent manner. They even showed us video re-enactments of children getting stabbed in the heart, neck, and eye complete with fake blood gushing out and Bugs Bunny worthy death performances.

A lot of us thought this was some super common way that kids were dying by the millions all across the world.

You won't die right away but supposedly digesting food causes the digestive tract to draw in more blood, leaving less for the muscles used in swimming and increasing the risk for cramps and fatigue.

I was told the same thing but I don't really feel anxious very often.

Was told that watching too much TV would make my eyes square.

Also, attaching sheets of papers to the front of the TV (static of CRTs) could allegedly make the TV explode.

For me it was if you swallow a plant seed, the plant will grow in your stomach and you will die from it. My dad was joking, but I was 5 and didn't know any better. I went on believing that until I was in my teens because things like that you don't re-evaluate every so often. It's just "my dad told me this and he wouldn't lie to me because grownups don't lie" stuck on autopilot.

I think some of the stuff you worry about as a kid will just arise naturally. Ideas like not stepping on cracks, or imagining monsters in dark places are likely produced spontaneously and naturally by an underdeveloped ape brain.

But it'd be nice if we didn't tell kids about old superstitions, yeah. Wait until they're old enough to react with dismissal about the stupid stuff people used to believe.

Try being raised in a narcissist Christian household with clearly sensitive parents seething at every opportunity to lob shame and judgment on ANYONE else to distract from the fucking evil stain on life which they themselves are. Couple it with some financial success in their lives so they extra feel like they don't need to answer to anyone else for fucking anything.

Did people actually believe that

In secondary school, we always had the rumour that if you blew into a woman's vagina then it would kill her.

It was received with more hilarity than sensibility... though it did mean that future oral sex was delivered with a little less exhalation.

Then, it turns out you can kill a girl by blowing into her minge and middle age dudes creased with laughter again, as if the previous 20 years of maturity never happened.

I was told swimming after eating caused stomach cramps. Sucks that OP was lied to.

There were a lot of other things I was told would kill me as a kid, but they were all lethal things like farm equipment, cars, and guns. Don't need fearmongering when there are actual things to fear!

As a kid, I always assumed if someone fell down the stairs--they died. It just appeared that way often enough in tv and movies.