animals

When I was little I believed rabbits laid eggs.

My dad told me once that a whale lived inside the big box that you take your pop cans to to recycle and get money. He told me the whale ate the cans. I believed that for a lot longer than I should have.

I thought that hens and chickens were the same thing and that cocks were a different breed of bird! I was very surprised to learn that cocks and hens were simply male and female chickens when I was 10

I thought all animals lived like people do. They had little houses with TVs and kitchens and beds. I remember finding fleas on my cats and killing the fleas that were obviously on their way home and thinking a search party would be sent out to find the missing flea. I couldn't ever find any of the little houses they lived in though...

I used to think that chickens actually just handed over their wings for us to eat, but that the rest of the chicken was spared. I wondered why I never saw any chickens walking around without wings.

my grandpa used to tell me that "eye eating spiders" existed, so for a long time growing up I used to sleep with a pillow or a blanket over my eyes so they couldn't eat my eyes while I was a sleep.

When my friend was small his brother told him that they made lipstick out what came out of the end of a dog when it got..um.. excited. He had a total meltdown one day when his mom was putting lipstick on.

I'm terrified of spiders because when i was about 7 a friend of mine told me that there was a kind of spider that would spit on you and make all your skin fall off.

When I was 8, I grew up in a town where the main road ran through a swamp called "Rattlesnake Gulch". I hated when my father would drive through there because I always thought that rattlesnakes hung from the trees and would drop on the car.

I used to believe that seasuits were little suits for sea horses. I discovered this was untrue when I went snorkeling. I asked my mom why they didn't have their suits on and she said they never had any.

when i was little i thought that all dogs were boys and all cats were girls.

Cats were girls, and dogs were boys.

When I was little I used to think that all dogs were boys and all cats were girls!!!

My mom used to tell me I could be anything I wanted to be when I grew up. So, I was convinced that when I grew up I could be a lion. I decided that if I could be anything I would want to something really powerful and what was more powerful than the king of the jungle.

When I was a kid my sister told me butterflies land on your head and lay eggs that turn into worms. I'm in my 40s and I still hate butterflies.

When I was around 7 years old, I believed that if I rolled my blanket in a tight tube and laid it around me in a U-shape, no mosquitoes would be able to bite me