body functions

I remember being about 3 years old and going outside to play one very windy day. I jumped up into the air and recall having stayed there for what seemed to be an inordinate amount of time. I have never forgotten that moment. At age 41 swear it really happened. I still wonder why I was able to remain aloft just that one time. Was it that I was so light and simply was able to somehow catch the wind just right like a kite? Or, was my ability to use mind over matter just better honed at age 3 than it has been ever since?

I was born under cancer and as a child I was sure that everyone born under that sign would die of the disease! I never asked my parents or anyone else for that matter because I thought it was understood and nobody liked to talk about it. In time I learn on my own that this was not the case but in the meantime I suffered a lot because of this belief.

I used to believe…

When I was little, I always felt bad when I didn't hear someone say something and made them repeat it because I thought everyone only had so much breath in them and that I was killing them by making them say something twice.

i used to believe that if you yawned without covering your mouth that an evil spirit would enter into your body. i remember one night in bed i forgot to cover my mouth as i yawned. i was up for several hours scared to death.

i used to think that a local anaesthetic was the type used in your area and a general was nationwide. so herts would have a different local anaesthetic from yorks.......

I used to wonder what happened to people when the doctors couldn't make them better, because naturally you don't die until you're really old

I used to believe…

My aunt used to tell me that, if you squeezed the skin under your chin, you would eventually get cancer. And I was only 7 when she told me this!!!

I used to believe…

My grandmother told me that defecation was called doing a "moo-moo". To this day, I can't hear the name of the item of clothing, "mumu" (or indeed "mumu pit cooking") without embarrassment.

i used to believe that everytime you hiccupped, your pine shot up an inch; making you taller

I used to believe…

For about 3 years in my early youth, I was absolutely certain that I hadn't pooped at all. I don't know how I could have thought that, since I know I must have defecated at least once every few days, but I was convinced.

I used to believe…

Until I was about 8 or 9, i thought that girls peed from their anus. It was the only logical explanation I could think of for why they would sit down to pee.

I used to believe that it was very likely that I would die in my sleep while I was still a kid. I thought that just the act of sleeping was enough to cause a person death.

I got my hands on a porno magazine at a very young age. After that I thought that boys peed white!

I used to believe that when pee dried up, it disappeared, so I used to pee on things around the house, thinking it would leave no trace.

I used to believe…

when i first heard about someone dying of a heart attack, my mind was immediately filled with the imagery of someone standing on the roof of his house defending himself against an attack by hundreds of native americans (the very stereotypical bugs bunny representation thereof), and for a while i thought people died of heart attacks because they got hit in the heart with a spear (this for some reason always took place on one's roof).

I thought that I could control the weather. So, I would think things like, "The rain is going to stop in 2 seconds and I can go play outside". It worked once but, of course, it was pure coiencidence. I suppose I had a god complex at the age of four.