I was always very confused about the circulatory system. When i was a little kid, i thought the body was blood, bones, and skin. The blood just floated and sloshed around. So when people stood up fast and said the blood rushed to their head, it was just sloshing up again. When you burped, the bubbles from the sloshing blood were rising up.
In later years, we learned about blood vessels and arteries, i thought the body was just full of tubes of blood. So i took a pair of safety scissors and slashed up on of my hands. The rest of the year i thought my teacher was an idoit and that I was the only one that realized that it couldnt all be tubes or else how could my hand have bled?
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- when I was young, I heard that blood had iron in it. I thought blood was red because it was rusty.— Hunter
- I used to think that instead of bones and blood and tissue that you body was made up of tuna.— m.n
- I used to believe that guns shot out blood because everytime somebody shot a gun in a movie you saw blood.Anon
- when i was litte
I used to believe that white people had white blood and black people had black blood.Anon - I thought the blue veins in some cheeses were actually blood vessesls!— Helen
- I used to believe that the people who take your blood at the doctor's office were vampires. — Andy