When I used to visualize my digestive system, I imagined that in my stomach was a big potato masher mushing everything up.

Marlene

i used to think that when something smelled really bad and you begen to breath through your mouth instead of your nose that your beath would smell the like awful stentch you were breathing in

Paige

I used to beleave that if you sat in one place to long, root would grow from your body and you would turn into a tree of something. Needlass to say, I was a very hyper kid.

spaventoso

When I was a kid I did not want to talk too much because I used to believe that dumb people were like that because they had already told everything they had to say in their life.

Helen

My older brother told me that everytime you sneezed your lungs would bleed. I believed this until I was 21!

Gem

I believed that each person's inner body were all machines, gears, and springs and outer body are soft plush stuffed under the authenic leathers (skin)

Shiloh

When I was much younger I didn't know that our bodies had veins and bloor vessels. So I thought that our blood just floated around under our skin. And when I cut myslef my brother would scare me by telling me all of it would come out and I would die.

I know the truth now and to get my brother back I always remind him how he cried in The Lion King movie!

Ley

when i figured out how to make myself burp my older sister told me that my intestines would burst if i did it so i went round telling everyone who burped that their intestines would explode!!

Rachel

I used to believe that ants walked inside your body and that's what caused an itch.

Anon

I uses to believe that snorting causes a block of snot in the top part of the nose and would have to be removed by a doctor , so I tried to never do it!

Anon

For a long time (from when I was about 3 to when I was 7) I thought that whenever my sister or brother grew a lot, and my parents mentioned it, that they had a 'gross purt', or a grosspurt. I really never could find out why anyone wanted to have a gross purt, but my siblings seemed to think that it was cool whenever they had a grosspurt, so eventually I accepted that they were okay. (I also never knew what a growth spurt was when I read it in a book...I started reading really early)
I didn't differentiate the two terms for a long time. Finally, one day, I realized that it really was a growth spurt. It's a lot less interesting, but it make a whole lot more sense.

I haven't had a grosspurt in a long while.

I used to believe that bruises were rotten blood.

llb91

I believed that if you held your breath, then your heart would stop during the time that you were holding your breath ... and start again when you started breathing.

Joel

i used to belive that if you yawned and burped at the same time that would never be able to hear again. because my big brothers would tell me that so i belived it.i used to be horified to yawn and burp at the same time because i didn't want to lose my hearing

HIA

I used to think that, because when you burp it feels like lots of air leaving you, you only had so many burps in your life before all of the air left you and you died!

Holl

When I was little my mother told my sisters and I that if we used deodorant we would stop breathing because it would plug up our pores and cause suffocation.

Tara

Whenever I faced the sun as a kid, I felt the urge to sneeze, so clearly the "magnetism" generated by the sun caused sneezes. Silly huh, EVERYONE knows little gnomes inside your face release gases that cause sneezes.

James Campbell

This is a very strange one, I will be surprised and somewhat relieved if anyone else believed this.

In elementary school I thought that people's spit had a specific smell and that if I drank from the same cup or if someone accidentally spit on me while talking my spit would smell like theirs.

derek_

I used to believe that grown men never ever cried, because I would never see my dad cry. I was quite shocked when I saw a male teacher cry at my sister's graduation.

Queeny

When I was 5 or so for several nights I thought I couldn't breathe while I was sleeping. I was very concerned so I stayed up as long as I could

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