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When I was very young my father told me that if you kissed your elbow you would change into the opposite sex. He said that that was why he was a boy now. I believed him! I tried for a long time to kiss my elbow. I now realize that the female sex is superior!
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The little daughter of some friends of mine thought you couldn't digest your dinner unless you went for a walk afterward.
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My Gran used to tell me that if I went out in the rain without a hat on I would get polio (from about age 3 onwards). I must have looked real odd in the hats my Gran used to knit for me. They were all hideous. Strange thing is, she told me this again when I was 33, but I refused to wear the dire object that was handed to me.
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When I was 5, my parents had plumbers in to change our plumbing from lead to copper pipes. At the time I was interested in how food got from our mouths to our stomachs. Mum explained that it all went down a pipe into our stomachs. I was well confused and couldn't understand how we could bend over when we were full of copper piping.
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my friend used to believe that if you didn't fart when you needed to it would go up and surround your heart and give you a heart attack
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not sure how old i was... but i was still in junior school.. a group of us at school came to the conclusion that girls never learnt to go to the toilet... this was concluded from seeing tampon (and other such ladies products) being advertised on TV... we thought that they were nappies for women...
I used to believe that women pee'd out of their bottoms. Why else would they sit down?
i used to believe that there were little people liveing inside of me and that how my body worked.
for example there were little people that would collect my food in buckets and tip them into the toliet!
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As I was a chubby child, I used to believe that if I went to bed and held my tummy in all night, I would wake the next morning with a flat tummy. If only it was that easy!
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I used to think that if you pinched someone...they'd get cancer.
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this girl i used to knoww told me that her dad was a werewolf. he used to take us home from dancing. she said that on a full moon, after turning into a werewolf he ate only girls with blonde hair.(im blonde) she told me not to worry though because i was nice to her.
you have no idea how i teated her like royalty whenver i saw her
I used to think that if I put my hands around my eyes real close...along with blinking my eyes really fast and moving my hand like a movie projector alongside my head would make everything I saw stay in my head forever...like a home movie.
I had just gotten a new perm and a few days later, the back of my neck itched like CRAZY!! I kept itching it until my dad told me he had a magic finger.
He rubbed his magic finger on the back of my neck where it itched...and it never itched again!!
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I used to think girls pee'd out their butts.
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When I was little my mother used to complain about her carpal tunnel syndrome. I believed it was actually called "carpool tunnel syndrome" and for the longest time I envisioned little cars driving through her veins.
I used to think that I could control the weather. One year when i was 9 I said I want snow for christmas, we got so much snow that year that everyone was praticly traped in there homes... I swore never to use my powers again
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I used to believe that people could fly during thunder and lightning, because I dreamt this once
I thought as a very young child that when you had diarrhea, that you were pooping out poison...and you couldn't get it on you, or you would become infected.
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When I was about 8 I thought that you could make a wish and it would come true. But only occasionally. If you did it too much or asked for something outlandish then it wouldn't work.
Everyone could do this by spending their "luck". Everybody had so much luck, and they could spend it as they wanted to, but if they ever ran out they wouldn't have any luck left if an emergency happened. Your luck is used in life (consciously or not) when something really good happens to you without your direct intervention. Naturally I correlated this personal luck to any particularly beneficial or serendipitous event, and felt cautious afterwards since that meant my current luck supply had now reduced by some amount.
To save "luck" I always waited a long time between wishes and only wished for small things, like winning at a video game or something. Spending more luck meant you could accomplish more with that wish. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't, it all depended on how effectively my luck was working that day. I never thought about where these wishes or the luck came from, that's just how it was.
Oh yeah, and there was my biggest "big" wish: for a beautiful girl to materialize out of a magazine picture and kiss me. Wow, I had saved up a year's worth of luck for that one. Needless to say, I was disappointed, and went to bed completely frustrated at all that wasted luck. Then years later in high school, some girl asked me out who looked eerily like the one in the picture. The recollection hit me after our first kiss.
Ep: We were blissfully in love until the inevitably tearful college separation, but I'd say it was worth all that luck in the end.
I used to believe…
When I was young, maybe 6 or 7, I believed that I was psychic and could predict which way my sandal would land if I kicked it off (right side up or not). My Uncle Michael pointed out that it landed the same way almost every time. He's also the one that told me there is no Santa.
