I used to believe that plastic surgery was done with plastic knives.

Vicki J.

My brother thought he was very lucky to have a velour shirt when he was a boy in the 70's. He thought it was a special fabric that only kings and other royalty got to wear.

Anon

I used to believe that human beings were human "beans", and it was just a stroke of luck that one was born a human bean rather than a regular bean. I used to think that mexican jumping beans (before I heard there was an insect inside them) were sort of a "missing link" betweeen regular beans and "human beans".

Jim Trychon

When I was very young I thought that underpants were worn only under pants. When I wore skirts I wouldn't wear anything beneath them, not having any underskirts. It took a windy day for my mother to catch on. We called them underclothes after that.

Meg

I was terrified to get my ears pierced for a long time--they said they used a gun to do it. My only knowledge of a gun was the kind that kills people. So I thought they would stand you up against a wall and aim. I didn't think the odds of them actually getting my ears were very good so it was a long time before I got them done.

Peapod

I wouldn't wear stripy socks because I used to believe the stripes dug into your feet

Shirley Reeves

I used to think that braces were decorations for your teeth and that they had to drill holes in your teeth to install them.

Anon

I used to believe that cheerleaders didn't have hands, just pom-poms where they should be!

Anon

when i was 3, i thought that bathing suits were formal clothes that people wore when they were having a wedding underwater

Anon

I used to believe that if you got drunk, your face disapeered. I used to wastch Cops a lot, and when they blurred out the faces, they were usually of people who were wasted.

Courtney

I used to think that if someone looked familiar to me then I must also look familiar to them.

Preston

I used to believe that a "tattoo" was a bar of soap. My kindergarten teacher told us that getting a tattoo would make us go crazy. My mom was giving me a bath, when I started screaming once she picked up the soap. I was screaming "DON'T GIVE ME A TATTOO! I DON'T WANT TO GO CRAZY!"

Lazlow

When I was about 9 or 10 I used to play a game with my younger brother where we would tie a towel around our necks to look like supermans cape. Unfortunately for me, my brother believed that the towel would enable me to fly so he pushed me off the top of the stairs.

After that he didn't believe the towel could make me fly any more.

Superman???

I believed for several years that the purpose of socks was to make it easier to put on trousers. Your bare feet would rub up against the trouser legs and stick to them, necessitating more effort to get them all the way through. Socks would just slide past.

MagicTarpit

i used to think that freckles were when god got bored and he decided to draw on your face!

kelsey

As a kid, when I was first told that I would grow, outgrow my clothes, and need nwe ones, it was a disquieting and fearsome prospect. I envisioned that one day I would be taken to a clothing store naked because I'd outgrown my old clothes and couldn't wear them anymore.

Heidi

When I was six, I asked for and received a Lighted Makeup Mirror. From the commercials that showed a woman seeing herself in the mirror at different times of day, I believed that I could look in the mirror and magically see myself dressed and made up for "Home" "Office" "Evening" and "DayTime". How disappointed was my six year old self to see that it was only the light that changed, not me!

sillys

The year I got my braces I was suddenly popular at school. I thought the braces had some magical power that made people start liking me. I was certain no one would like me after I had them taken off the next year.

Charles

When I was around seven years old, the local tough guy kid took an extreme dislike to me. I was doing my best to avoid meeting him on neighbourhood streets, for fear of being beaten up. At around that time, I read a book about a kid in a similar situation. The author wrote: "I held my breath and hoped that he didn't recognize me." For a long time afterward, I believed that holding your breath changed your appearance.

David Moore

I used to think I loved the smell of make up, because when mum went out for the night wearing lip stick and foundation, she always smelled so nice! It wasn't till I was 13, and sniffing lipsticks in a pharmacy, that I realised this wasn't the case. That same day I discovered perfume.

Anon