As a child, nits were a common affliction in our family. My hair was very long, and it was always a real business to get them out. Because I was told they were blood-sucking creatures, I believed if they were in there too long they'd suck so much blood out of my head I'd faint.
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I used to get scared to wash spiders down the bath or sink, because they always seemed to reappear in the sink in my bedroom, and I was convinced they'd gather all their spider friends together to gang up on me. To combat this, as I didnt fancy taking baths with spiders, I used to put the plugs in all the surrounding sinks as soon as I'd done it.
Nowadays I'm not so scared, primarily because I dont have a sink in my room anymore, and also because if there is a spider in the bath I'll have a shower, and vice versa, like last week, when there was a spider above the shower and I was scared it would fall into my hair.
I convinced my sister, who was about five at the time (and I was about 11) that 'the ants' kept steeling her stuff. Well, it wasn't the ants, it was me! Everytime she would 'lose' something, she would run out and say, 'I've lost ..." then I would pull her asside and say, 'it was the ants again, i saw them ..." and she would run outside and yell at them! Man, I used to crack up when I would be sitting in my room, playing with my sisters toys, and I could hear her outside ...
"Ants! Give me back my toys!"
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When I was about seven, I was utterly convinced that chickens had leaves and trees had feathers.
I used to believe that my cat was really just a boy trapped inside the cat's body by a curse. It made me sad because I used to think if the boy's spirit was freed, my cat would be gone and never love me again. I know that's wierd...
I USED TO THINK CATS AND DOGS WERE BASICALLY THE SAME ANIMAL JUST THAT CATS WERE GIRLS AND THE DOGS WERE BOYS..... MAKES SCENSE RIGHT???
I wanted a horse when I was a little girl of 4 or 5. There were a lot of westerns on television in the mid to late 1950's and after every big battle there were always horses walking around with bridles and saddles...and they didn't have owners anymore. I decided that I would go out west, when I got a little older, and get me one of these "free" horses. Little did I realize that since I lived on the west coast of Washington state I was already "out west" and the wars I saw on television had occured in the previous century. There were no horses free for the taking.
I used to belive that ladybugs turned into real ladys
I once saw this educational program thingy on tv when i was a kid and saw how spiders can have lots and lots of babies. I was always afraid that when i got home, million and quadrillion of spiders would crawl onto to me and lay eggs into my brain. I'm still out creeped out by spiders after that show.
When I was 5 years old. Cats have ears that stick up, and on the back they have little loops. I thought that was when they had babies that would be there ears.
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Until I was about 13 I thought chipmunks were baby squirrels.
My dad used to tell us all kinds of silly little fibs, which my sisters and I believed for a very long time. Here is one of my favourites.
He told us that female elephants were called Elephants and males were called Ollyphants.
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i used to think all dogs were males and cats were females.
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My younger sister thought that if she slept in the dog bed and drink from the dog bowl she would turn into a dog.
I am still afraid of geckos until now because it's an old wives' tale in our country that if one stuck on you, you would never be able to take it off unless you showed it the bottom of a pot or of a Aeta, an indigenous race here. I'm still not sure until now if it's true, so I just stay away, just in case.
When I was 4 i used to beleive cats could understand what people where saying so when my sister said hi stupid kitty i thought the cat was going to attack her.
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when i was 6 i used to think that butter came from sqwached butterflies and then i saw this tiny butterfly with was more or less the same colout as butter i gave it to my dad ( coz i dont like butterflies) and said to him dad heres a good butterfly mabey we can have some homade butter on our toast you shodov seen the look on his face
When I was younger, I had a fascination with all things farm, particularly chickens. I pestered a family member for one of her chickens, but she wouldn't give me a live one (much to Mom and Dad's relief). Instead, she gave me an egg and told me that if I took really good care of it, it would hatch. Well, I set it up on my bedside table, in a nice padded box and waited. Even after a few weeks had passed, I was still waiting for *MY* chicken to appear. The egg disappeared a few days later (My mom said she threw it out eventually.) If only I had known about the heat needed aspect of hatching eggs!!! I had really wanted a pet chicken. At least the egg never broke!
My Dad told me when I was a kid and I used to believe it. If you could sprinkle salt on a bird's tail you could catch it. I tried many times but never caught one.
I used to believe that my cat could communicate with me by mind, and I would have conversations with her!