TikTok users are sharing the dangerous things they did as children while unsupervised

Back in October, TikTok user @mountaindewbarrymore posed a question that inspired an entire TikTok trend. That question was: “What was your unsupervised childhood activity that definitely should’ve killed you?”. To kick things off, @mountaindewbarrymore shared her own harrowing tale of childhood trauma. Apparently, she used to run baths and then would “try to breathe underwater” by putting a washcloth on the surface of the bathwater, thinking it would trap air. A distressing number of other users had their own dangerous childhood activities to share. User @vududoll999 shared that as children, her and her siblings would put their brother in the dryer and start it. Another TikTok user named Emily Marie shared that as a kid, she would “take [different] things like forks, butter knives, etc. and … stick them in [outlets]” to shock herself. Someone else — user @n0tmarissa — revealed that she used to eat foam packing peanuts. Yet another daredevil admitted that they used to eat peanuts as a kid, even though they are deathly allergic