I used to believe that girls peed out of their rear ends. Oddly enough as it seems, i believed this until i was twelve...

i can hear you laughing...

Jeffy

When I was 19, I was asked to take a little 3-year-old boy to the bathroom. I got very embarassed and said I couldn't, I didin't know how boys go to the bathroom.

Sad to say I was sexually active, I had just never seen a man go to the bathroom and was unclear as to whether he pooped out of his penis. How dumb!

no way

I remember when my brother used to be afraid of going wee wees because he thought his 'pet snake' was vomiting!

Michelle

when I was 9 and in hospital to have my tonsils taken out, the doctor asked me if I had loose stools. I thought he said loose tools and wondered why my hadn't packed any screwdrivers for me...

Anon

My granny told me and my siblings and cousins that we'd get warts if we peed in the road.

It wasn't true..lol

Willow

I used to believe that balls (genitals) contained wee instead of sperm, and going to the toilet was how to empty them!

Anonymomous?

As a child, I believed that I pooped brown because it was the color of my skin. So, I also thought that white people pooped white because it was the color of their skin.

SJB

I used to believe that little men lived in your butt and would take the food that you ate and paint it brown and glue it to other foods. Then they would put the poop on little skateboards and skate it out of your butt. It was a very complicated process!

Little Men and Skateboard Butt

I used to think that poop was made like this: first you ate the food and it traveled down your throat, fell and landed in your stomach. At this point, several small men would eat the food themselves and then poo it out. Then the poo would travel down into your butt and be rammed out by an ox, appropriately called the "butt ox". I was corrected in the first grade when I through a block at a kids head screaming that I did so have an ox inside of me.

Allyson

All I knew that was different between a man and a woman when i was little was that a man stood up to go to (use) the bathroom and a woman had to sit down. So I came to the conclusion that also men didn't poop because that would mean they would have to sit do it.

Kitkat

When I was a child I used to believe that only men would do the number two. I just couldn't imagine my mother doing that, so she and all women could only pee.

Alexandre

When I was 9 years old I used to wonder why when I went to the bathroom in a public place, noone else really was there. For some odd reason I believed that everybody had to go to the bathroom at the same time.

Anon

I used to believe that a little woman and her kids lived in your rectum.When you pooped she was making them go outside to play. Sometimes they wanted to go out and sometimes they didn't.

Anon

When I was very little, we had a friend from Germany visiting at my grandma's. I went into the bathroom once and someone had forgotten to flush. The water was red, and I didn't know about periods at the time, so I used my youthful logic to conclude that German people must pee red, and went on with my life without giving it a second thought.

Lisa

When i was a little kid i used to think that when you went for a poo it was practise for when you had a baby...

Kitty

Every time i would go to the washroom i would have to take off my shirt as well as my pants in case something got on them...i believed everyone did this until about grade 4!

Anon

When I was a child, my sister once told me that that only reason why I ever had to poop was because I'd been a naughty little girl, and if ever I quit being naughty, I'd quit pooping. To this very day, I never poop without finding myself working at telling myself that I'm not really doing anything naughty.

Robyn

Until I tried it in 3rd grade, my parents told me that if I ate paper my poop would come out in packages.

The Mailman

I have a friend named Stacy, and she's black. When she was growing up she noticed a correlation between the color of her skin and the color of her poop- to a younger kid, it made lots of sense that the correlation extended to everyone. Hence, for years she was under the impression that black people pooped brown poop and white people pooped white poop.

Adam C.

Once when I was a child, a business associate of my father's came to see him at this shop. That day the associate had his wife and their little girl with him. At one point the girl walked up to her mother and said, "Mommy, I've got to doodoo!" I was astounded, because I must have believed, as I've noticed others on this site have, that girls didn't doodoo. So later at school, I asked my best friend if girls doodoo. I hoped he'd know, since he had two sisters. But he seemed embarrassed and just said nothing. I didn't want to be overheard, but I was, by a girl I didn't trust. She walked up and said, "Are you stupid? Of course girls doodoo!" I wasn't ordinarily comfortable talking to her, but desperate to know, I asked her more. I don't remember the exact details of our conversation. But it continued with her acting as if I were stupid, but ended with her telling me that boys and girls are different only in how they pee, and that both doodoo the same. I wanted to believe, But since I didn't trust her, I ventured to go ask the teacher if she had told me the truth. I told the teacher, "Valerie told me that girls doodoo just the same as boys. Is that true?" The teacher's baffling response was "Only in extreme cases." Did she somehow misunderstand my question? If so, what did she think I was asking? Or was she just somehow cruelly playing with me in a way no teacher should? In any event, I puzzled for years afterwards, thinking girls doodooed much more seldom that boys and wondering what were the extreme cases in which they would doo it.

Donny