I used to believe that if I pouted too long, my mouth would stay that way! My big sisters told me this one and seeing that I was the only one in the family with full lips....I believed it!!

Laura

I was raised in a very charasmatic/strict christian home. Once, at a religious conference when I was about 6 We sat in front of two African American women wearing large gold hoop earrings and long red fingernails. I thought it was weird they were there because surely they couldn't be christians and dress like that! Looking back I see how stupid that was.

Anon

when i used to pull faces when i was little and my mom caught me she would tell me that "if the wind blew in the wrong direction that my face would be stuck like that" i still believed it until i was about 12 and auctually thought about it! :)

Ruth, Dublin

i used to believe that black people were made from chocolate and i saw some running one day and they were sweating and so i announced very loudly "look mummy they're melting" CRINGE!

Anon

When I was about four or five, my mom had a friend who's son was "half black and half white". He looked very white. So I thought he was literally half black and half white. As in, his upper body was white and his lower body was black. Nice.

Jenn

I remember a down-filled jacket I had always wanted (you know the large puffy-looking type).

One Christmas Santa brought it for me and I was thrilled until I looked at a label on the jacket that said "outerwear", which I mis-read as "underwear" and I refused to ever put that jacket on. I thought it was ridiculous that anyone would wear underwear outside their clothes to stay warm!

Children–beware of what you ask for… (and always read the tag twice!)

DonaldH

When i was 4, the adults in my family told me that if i made funny faces, my face would remain as such. for years i feared mking funny faces and told my friends to be careful.

Anon

Like many children are told, I thought that if you made a face for too long your face would freeze like that.

One night, I went to my parents crying as I was afraid to go to sleep because I thought if I fell asleep, I'd close my mouth and it would stick like that and I'd suffocate.

Ohio...

that....I do not grow old (in size)...rather my clothes and shoes shrink..

mayank

when i was littel i saw an albino lady and mum told me to be very nice to albinos as thier angels sent to spy on us my albino mate laughes at it crazy lookingback at it

anne

Like most kids, adults told me when I was little that if I make a face it would get stuck like that. My neighboor's mom had a lip deformity and I always thought it just got stuck like that. Years later I found out she had medical problem.

Anon

One time when I was a kid, my dad said something about "colored people" and I said, "What color are they?" I pictured them as bright blue, green, yellow, or pink, and clear, like stained glass.

Jackee H.

I used to beleive the plastic surgery was puttting plastic into people.I would look at stars and say that when the plastic broke,blubbering fat spewed out.

That kid that sat behind you in Thir Grade

I used to believe that children all had rounded noses, and as you grew older, it would become pointy, and the nostrils would become long and thin. I dreaded getting older because of this, and i liked my button nose.

Amber

When I was little, I used to believe my Grandpa John was John Howard, because he's bald and looks like John Howard.

IhateTheRealJohnHoward

When I was in preschool I asked my mother what feminine meant. She replied - the things that make you girly, like your long curly hair. I became convinced that girls with short hair were boys and girls with medium length hair were girl-boys, or somewhere inbetween!

No Longer Confused

my mum when she told me if i keep frowning and the wind changed my face was going to stay like that. So I used to get my sister to blow across my face to see if it was true..... It's not.

cha cha

We told our little sister that she had a long bushy tail and she fully believed us for ages!!

Anon

When we were in kindergarten, my friends and I believed that if we crossed our eyes and stuck out our tounge, and someone slapped us really hard in the back, that our faces would get stuck that way! Sometimes, we would play tricks on eachother and wack eachother in the back while we were crossing our eyes. When our faces didn't get stuck like that, we thought that our guardian angels were watching over us and that they made sure that our faces didn't turn ugly!!

kelsey

I used to think people with bum chins ate children

Rev