I used to believe(up until 11 years old) that when I cried and was really sad - every person in the world was also sad!

Jay

I managed to convince my brother when he was young and annoying that if he sang a certain song a dragon would come and eat him. He believed me for months until our mother was singing the song one day and he got worried.

Resi

I believed that if you lied that your nose would really grow like Pinnochios, so everytime I would lie I would hold my nose in to keep it from growing, so my mom pretty much knew everytime I told a lie.

Breanna

My friends little sister once asked us if we could tell her what it is we do to attract boys. We told her that there's a ritual that she had to do called "The Mating Call".
"You have to put your hands under your arms and flap them while standing on one foot. Then say " CooCoo Ca Chu" as loud as you can," we told her.
She did it every time she saw a boy she liked. It was hella funny.

sami sunshine

When I was younger I would always want to go to parties with my mommy and daddy. This was at the same time that I was getting all my immunizations, so I hated all shots. So my mommy proceeded to tell me that they were going to "shot parties" and you have to get shots if you want to go. I didn't figure out that "shot parties" are imaginary until I was 12.

Anon

We used to have a bunch old skeleton keys, they were on a big ring, and the keys were huge, and the hung on a old wood burning stove/fireplace in our house. I would play with them a lot. One day I was about 5 I asked my dad what they were for, and he told me that if I was ever bad, he would show me.. He said that the police asked him to take care of the really bad criminals and monsters and that they lived in a jail in our attic, and that those were the keys to the cells. He said their favorite thing to eat was bad little kids, and that they must be starving by now because he hadn't fed them in a while... I was scared to death! When ever my cousins or friends would come over and start getting loud I'd warn them about the attic, and the keys. I believed that for a very long time.

Anon

When I was younger, my dad told me that if I whistled, I would attract snakes. After that I stopped whisteling until I found out it wasn't true.

Anon

i used to believe that we were all just little dolls and the world was a play house and there were giant people up in the sky playing with us like little girls play with barbie dolls.

i was stupid

:)

I used to believe that Belinda Carlisle was a complete fake and liar because I saw her on Top of the Pops singing 'Heaven is a Place on Earth' and I already knew that heaven was in the sky!

dippingmytoes

My dad used to tell me that I had to put his dirty socks under my pillow before I went to bed at night - otherwise the hippopotamus man would come and get me. After sleeping with dirty socks under my pillow for awhile he tried to get me to put his toe nail clippings under my pillow (unless the some other type of animal-man would come and get me) - thats when my mom put an end to that (thank god!)

Lauren

On my 8th birthday after picking me up from school i was all excited because i knew i was getting a bike....however my dad turned round me to me and told me that he was very sorry but my dog lassie and my new bike were gone because lassie had jumped on da bike and cycled it down the road! I promptly burst into tears and could not be consoled by anyone except my Grandad who had bought me the bike!!!

Áine

When I was around six or seven, I asked my father what air was made of. He told me, straight-faced, that it was made of whipped egg whites and raisins.

Around same time, my brother asked what owls were made of, to which he answers 'popcorn and juice'

I never really got his sense of humor back then...

Truce

my mum told me that the 'public' park was closing so she could go home

xx-lotty-pop-xx

When i was a kid i used to believe that my dad was He-Man. I thought this because he would tell me so, and hide behind the door and scream "By the power of Greyskull!". When i would run to open the door it was just my dad, but he said "oh, you came too late. I've already transformed back into me"

I never believed it completely, but the was always some doubt left lingering.

Joao

I was a weird kid...when I was 8 I thought that if I said something it would come true. And I figured that the only way that could happen was if I was transported to an alternate universe where the thing was true. Except then I would have alternate parents and everything, and it wouldn't be my real origonal life. Also, I thought that I would forget that it was ever different than it was, because my brain was also modified (so conveniently there is no way to prove myself wrong.) So I was afraid of saying any untrue statement and NEVER lied .... :P

Anon

When I was younger my Mom told me and my older sister that if we lied she could see the devil in our eyes. Whenever we'd lie we would check each others eyes to make sure he wasn't in there.

Stephanie

When I was little my dad had this bag and it had needles and other assorted sharp objects in it so to keep me from sticking my little three year old hand in it he told me that it was filled with baby alligators. It took my mom nearly an hour to calm me down. I still can't go anywhere near a bag that has Taz on it without wanting to cry. It's sad, actually...

Anon

my best friend had a rough childhood she had a lazy eye and broke her leg at a very young age like 2. she told me that she was too young for a cast or surgery so they gave her a wooden leg and a glass eye. finally when i was about 10 she told me that her family sold my family our land so when i asked my brother and he said it wasnt true i asked him about her leg and eye and was furious my best friend wasnt a pirate

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