I've always ha d a little pop belly (I still do), all my friends had them too, so when I went off to school and us girls were playing house and we all pretended we were pregnant, it came as a shock when one girl lifted her shirt and she had a huge belly, and another was as flat as a board. After that I was stumped, "Why did these girls look different?" I came to a conclusion, they were other animals, not humans because humans all have pop bellies.

Karen

Mum would tell us that if we made a silly face and the wind changed then our faces would stay like that forever

Anon

I used to think my uncle Richard was Desi Arnaz. Don't ask me why, because I have no freaking idea. But a couple of days ago I looked at him and thought, "Hey, he actually sort of looks like Desi Arnaz..."

Lucy watcher

I used to believe that people with hydrocephalus were called "waterheads" and the adults lived in the woods at Grant Park (Atlanta, GA) and if you drove out there after midnight and honked your car horn they'd all come running out of the woods and bite the tires off your car.

.... That was the story a neighbor kid told me and a group of other neighborhood kids. None of us believed her so she offered to prove it. She said a "waterhead" lived a couple of houses down from her so we all followed her to her house. We hid behind her mother's station wagon and waited. Soon a car pulled up and 2 people got out - a woman and a man with an enormous head. Why the fact that such a human condition as Hydrocephalus existed also confirmed her biazrre story of tire biting in our young little minds, I'll never know, but we believed it after that.

Linda Smith

After going to a lot of Indian restaurants and being a huge fan of Indian food, I thought that everyone of Indian descent was born with a dot in the middle of their forehead.

Anon

I used to believe all Kings were incredibly slow and all Queens were incredibly fast.

Bijan

I used to believe that when I was changing my clothes I had to keep my back covered somehow or get clothed really quickly or else the devil would come from behind me and kill me by stabbing me with a knife.

D.C.

I used to believe that when you put on a shoe, it didn't matter about if it was left or right, it just had to it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

egaDDe

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 had a really little pair of short shorts when i was 7, and i thought that if someone else wore them then they'd become me !

Libbeh

Ok when I was in Kidnergarten my mom wanted to get me to get my ears pierced and I was really excited about it! But a couple days before I was supposed to get my ears pierced a kid at school told me that when you got your ears pierced that blood squirted everywhere and that it hurt REALLY REALLY bad!! I was terrified!!! When I got home I told my mom I didn't want my ears pierced and why. She told me it didn't hurt but I told her, YEAH IT DOES!! I was convinced that if I got my ears pierced I would bleed to death!! I didn't stop believing that till I finally got my ears pierced when I was 11 years old!!

Jessica

I had a strange idea of beauty when I was little. I believed people with curly hair were gorgeous and people with straight hair were ugly My friend and I had straight hair when we were very young, but as we got older my hair curled and her's didn't change. Therefore, one day I declared I was going to be a model and she couldn't because she was too ugly. Needless to say, we're not friends anymore.

Anon

My sister (Who is 18 now) told my mother that she had a "Chocolate Girl" In her classroom. She also said she tasted sweet. (She licked her arm)

Bijan

I have a reddish birthmark on my left arm right at the crease of my elbow, about an inch in diameter. My mom told me when I was young that it was a scar, from when my uncle was holding me as a baby and smoking at the same time, and ashes from his cigarette fell on my arm and burned me. After a few years, my father was finally able to convince me that it was really just a birthmark, and that my mom was being silly.

Except she really -does- believe it is a burn mark, despite the fact that a burn that bad as a baby I would have had to have gone to the hospital for...

Not burned

my brother always used to say to me if i pulled a stupid face that the wind would change and my face would stay like that forever.

mar

One day when i was about 6, i was watching the news on tv, and something came on about a high school, and i thought to myself ''why is everyone all different heights if they are the same age?'' becoz i always used to think that what ever age you are, everyone that age is the same height. so u can imagine how this all confused me

brie

When I was about six years old, and played in this kind of attick in our farm-builing, I believed that my father couldn't see me because I was actually turning into the little dwarf I was pretending to be..maybe not a uniqe story, but funny when you come to think about it:-)

Anon

(i was told)(by my mum)if you didn't let your mum squeeze your blackheads they would grow big and drag you down to the river - i knew an old man ( a saw doctor) who had enormous ones so i knew they did get big

eric irwin, aged 50 and a half

there was a guy at my church whose eyebrows were pointy so it looked like he was angry all the time. My sister and i believed that he was in fact angry all the time and we named him "the angry man".

Emily

i used to think for some strange reason that people had really long noses like a sweeping brush handel and they were called nib nabs

me