I never knew what the purpose of an appendix was. Since the doctors are able to remove it I figured it wasn't that viable of a body part. My father told me that it was used for eating rocks, back in the caveman days. Since we don't eat rocks anymore doctors could remove it.
I never understood how we could get more blood either. My father explained that the body squeezes all of the organs it doesn't use anymore (like the appendix) and gets the blood from them.
I had both of these beliefs until high school.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when people broke bones, doctors would give them a new part of the body they broke. — Kelly
- I used to think that instead of bones and blood and tissue that you body was made up of tuna.— m.n
- My father used to call soya sauce "monkey blood". I didn't even consider tasting it for years!— Me
- i used to believe that when you had cramps your appendix would blow up.— Avery
- I was told when I was little that eating too much salt on your food would "dry up your blood".Anon
- when I was young, I heard that blood had iron in it. I thought blood was red because it was rusty.— Hunter