I used to believe that every kid with a loop of hair at the back of his head was named Luke. Who knows why...

Gabrielle

i was always told if i pulled a face and the wind changed id always stay that way! it scared the life out of me i didnt pull any faces again!

Anon

i used to beleive that everyone in the world had an exact copy of themselfs and someday we were meant to reunite.hmm boy i have i changed!!!

elmo

In my elementary school, there were two kids with Down syndrome. I didn't really understand what was up with them because no one would talk about it - I only knew that they looked funny, in sort of the same way, so I assumed they were related.
When I found out the truth I felt like I'd committed some terrible crime, and every time I come across someone with Down syndrome, I'm a little afraid they'll be mad at me for it.

Jenna

When I was about 4 or 5 my family was driving thru downtown Chicago. I saw probably my first African-American person and thought they were Chocolate People!

jmr

when i was little, i used to make faces, especially the one where you put your fingers in your cheeks and pull so you have a horizontally oblong-ish mouth. my mom told me that if the wind blew the wrong way, my face would stay like that forever.

Anon

I used to think people with bum chins ate children

Rev

I used to believe all nice button up shirts were called blouses until I was in a crowd (of all places) and told my male cousin that I liked his blouse. Everyone laughed and my cousin said boys don't wear blouses.

Wickwire

When I was about 3 years old, I thought that if you had long hair, you were a girl and if you had short hair, you were a boy. My mom told me that I was a girl numerous times, but since I had short hair, I just said "I'm not a girl, I'm a boy!"

Queeny

When I was two my family gave me a Chinese hat. They hoped it would tether me to my Chinese roots. It did, and I wore the hat everwhere -- until my aunt told me (well, she never actually said this, but this is what I morbidly interpreted) that a monster lived in the hat and was just waiting for the right moment to cave in my skull and eat my brain. I never wore it again, and my family didn't know why until a couple years ago.

Tom

I used to think if you dressed like the popular people uyou would be popular. So one day I wore an outfit that the most popular girl in school had worn a day before. I walked up to her and said,"Hi. I don't no if you noticed but im wearing the same outfit as you did yesterday," She said"Yeah but I found out yesterday that that outfit was worn my a teacher earlier in the year!" i asked the teacher if I could call my mom for a change of clothes!

Mystery

I when I was a alittle kid I believed that my appearence was that of a lion. I used to growl at bugs and things...I was astounded to a small boy looking at me through the mirrior....when I as my mom who he was she just shook her head in disgust...

The Fidiot

I used to think that the difference between a skirt and a dress was the hemline - a skirt was short and a dress was long. I didn't learn the truth until my girlfriend explained it to me at the age of 21.

Anon

when i was younger i used to always make weird faces at my sisters and cousins(e.i crossing my eyes, etc.) and my parents used to tell me that if i kept making faces that it would stay like that forever.

jessica

When I was 5 my older sister told me that I used to be bigger than her, but they put me through the wash and I shrunk. Of course, I believed her... it made sense at the time...

Alissa

When I was 10 i believed that you had another person who looked like you on the other parts of the world.

Amy