I had my tonsils taken out when I was about 4. "Tonsils" somehow sounded likes "toes" to be and I got the idea that tonsils were located in your toes. Then I was told that they would be going in through my mouth to remove the tonsils and I thought they'd use a long tool to reach all the way down through my body to remove the tonsils from my toes.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- My father always told me that if I wore socks to bed I would grow hair inbetween my toes. Anon
- When I was little, I thought that if I slept with socks on, my toes would grow together.— Laura
- i used to believe that peas were toes — DJ
- I remember being scared of the ocean for a while as a little kid. I thought lobsters would pinch my toes.— Flipper
- I used to belive that ballet dancers had flat toes, so when they put on their shoes they would fit right.— Jazzy
- When I was little, I had tiny toes and beleived that ducks mistook them for kernels of corn and eat them.— Seguin