body functions

I used to think that, when people were talking about "Alzheimer's," they were actually saying "Old Timer's." I used to think the official medical term for the disease was "Old Timer's." Heh.

I used to believe that if u dreamt of somethin more than once it would come true, this really freaked me out cos i just had recurring dreams of my school bus crashing and every1 died. When the bus did crash " which scared me completley" i screamed really loud and cried but we had only cliped the back of a car. i was a ashamed to got back on the bus lol

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When a classmate repeated that old addage "step on a crack, break your mother's back" I believed it and since my Mom had a lot of illness for years as a I child I was terrified of stepping on a crack.

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when i was younger and was going poo, i would think that if i push too hard that my bones would come out too.. one day i thought it actually happened, untill i realized i was ok

I used to think that every time I would hold my breath brain cells in my head would burst. The image I had was of a boiling mass of tomato sauce with all these bubbles on top going *pop* *pop*.
I refused to swim, because that meant my cells in my brain would be popping when I went under.

i was told in first grade that when you farted green gass or bubbles come out....so for months i tried to catch a peek when i farted....but i always missed. it came out before i got a look. i still haven't seen what a fart looks like, but adult reasoning tells me that there would be a green coloring to my underwear if this were so.

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My cousin came in we were young and announce that HE had pulled his cervix. Connfusing that with his cervical vertebrae. He was ina lot of pain, but that was really funny

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My mom used to say that if you farted to much ,when you got old that you butt would become loose and you wouldn't be able to hold you poop in and you'd poop your pants.

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For the longest time I thought my urine was yellow because we ate corn almost every night and I thought that was turning it yellow. I was secretly angry at my grandmother for years because of this.

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My little brother who is 14 has never had the chicken pox...but he's convinced that he has. My mother and I know better, but I don't think we're ever going to convince him of the truth.

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My four year old daughter actually believes I have special powers. When we are in the car and the sun is in her face she asks me to say the magic word. Abracadabra!!! I turn a corner!! Bye bye sun.

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When I was little I believed that when your stomach growled it was the sides of your stomach rubbing together because there wasn't anything in there to grind. Makes sense!!

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When I was little, I would sometimes want to take food into the bathroom or I would still be chewing my food when I went to the bathroom. My mom always said not to take food into the bathroom because if I did I was feeding the devil. It wasn't until I was in my early 20's until I could allow myself to chew food while in the bathroom.

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After Mom went to the doctor's office, we stopped at the grocery store to pick up some prescriptions and a herbal supplement. I couldn't remember exactly what it was, but thought I had the word.

Mom started cracking up when I asked her if we were going to get the "euthanasia". (echinacea)

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When I was very young, my greatest ambition was to be able to fly. I watched a children's show on PBS called "Zoom," in which every episode concluded with a closing song containing the lines "Come along and give it a try... We're gonna teach you to fly!" And I would get so impatient for them to show the episode in which they would show us how this was done. (Of course, they were speaking metaphorically, darnitall...)

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My aunt told my cousin when he had an ear infection that there was wax in his ear. He thought she'd said there were "wacks" in his ear, so when he had a less severe infection he asked if there was just one "wack" this time, lol

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My dad had really thick glasses. He would often to fall asleep wearing them. I used to stare at him wondering how he could see his dreams with his specs outside his closed eyes.

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As my parents told me, that growing comes from eating, I imagined that every time I had a meal, it would make a certain part of the body grow, for example the legs. Because growth happens very slowly, I did not wonder why I was growing perfectly symmetrically, and considered it pretty clever of the body to manage putting exactly the right amount of food to the right place. Of course, I also imagined that the food would go immediately to its place.