My mom used to tell us there was a mouse living in her housecoat pocket. I believed her.
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My friend was told when she was a child (and still believes this) that butterflies are called 'butterflies' because they were originally called 'flutterbies' (because, of course, they flutter by) and that people got confused somewhere along the way.
I used to believe that we were living in the future and that DOGS were extraterrestrials in disguise. I was so scared of dogs, and I believed they could read my mind. I thought that maybe the government made a secret pact with the DOGS and that was why there were so many of them...even in the white house.
Ya, I know...crazy!
When I was three and a half years old we had a grill-out with visiting family and my cousin, five years older than I, told me that he saw a fly poop on my burger. I freaked out and refused to eat the hamburger even after my mother reheated it.
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I used to believe worms at ginat teeth and when it rained they were looking for people to eat. I was 11!!!!!! I wanted to un over each worm with my scooter
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When i was nine the neighbor's dog would jump on me and hump me. I used to believe he wanted a piggy back ride. Now I know it is wrong.
My sister was always very skinny growing up. One time, on a long car trip, my dad convinced her that she had a tapeworm, and it lived in her stomach and ate all her food. The only way to get rid of it, he said, was for her to starve for three days. Then it would smell food and crawl out of her mouth!!! We both cried we were so scared and we BELIEVED it!!!
My mom was born in California and had never seen or heard a woodpecker. When she moved to the northeast and heard one for the first time, she asked my dad where there was construction going on so close to our house.
...he corrected her.
As a kid, I learned of the existence of spider webs and cobwebs long before learning of whatever critters might have constructed them. Not surprisingly, I have since learned what spiders are. But I still have no idea of what, if anything, cobs are if they are what makes cobwebs.
When I was little, my sister told me that if a cockroach bit me, I would get cancer and die. After that, whenever a cockroach was found in our house, I would pretend to be sick to make my parents take me to the doctor's.
I used to believe that my mother could talk to the birds. She would always tell me that a 'little birdie' told her that I did something.
Whenever we would be playing outside or somewhere semi-unsupervised, she would tell us to remember that the birds don't lie. talk about paranoid!
My mom told me when I was little that if a fly landed on my eyelid I would go blind. One day, a fly landed on my eyelid and I started to cry. I didn't want to go blind.
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I used to think that orangutans were monkeys who ate alot of oranges.
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I used to think dogs were for boys and cats were for girls.
Come to think of it, I am not too far off.
When i was little, i used to believe that animals weren't killed to make fur coats. That the animals were just running around naked having either been shaved or gave it up, you know like in the cartoons. That was until my brother decide to tell me otherwise and show me proof.
Around the tender age of 5, I used to think cats and dogs were the same species. I used to think cats were females and dogs were males.
When I was a kid I had never seen any exotic animals until I went to the zoo, then I could see all the animals I saw in cartoons. When I saw the zebra I got very excited and said, "Wow a Zebra! A Zebra!" about 100 times. My big brother said, "That's not a zebra, that's a horse in striped pajamas." Dejected, I sat down and said, "Oh. I thought it was a zebra." My brother got yelled at by Mom for that one, and for many years I was never was sure when a zabra was really a zebra.
When i was younger, when i pouted, my mom would tell me that a grasshopper would land on my lower lip. i never understood what she was trying to gain by saying that and she never seemed to understand that didnt make me stop pouting because that was all she said.
i used to believe that all monkeys were the same kind of animal as gorillas. i asked my mom once why orangutans were orange not black, and she told me they were different from gorillas and i thought she meant that WE were the same kind of animal as orangutans (because we had just gone on vacation and i got such a huge tan i looked orange) and in school the next day i tld my teacher that i was an orangutan because even my butt was orange, (i had a wedgie at the beach)-and except it wasn't hairy like orangutans, & my teacher frowned and all the kids laughed, mostly the stupid boys, and i had extra work to do.
When my mom was a teenager, she lived in California, and had never seen a firefly. So, she always thought they were mythical creatures like fairies and unicorns. What a surprise she had when she moved to the northeast!