body functions

I used to believe that whenever someone hic-uped their bones were growing. Hence the little jumps meant your bones were pushing each other away to make room for more bone!

I used to suck on the ends of batteries intent on gaining super electric powers.

I used to believe…

When i was little my sister got a hernia, earlier that day we had been chasing butterflies around the garden so i explained to her that one of the butterflies she caught had ate his way into her stomach and gave her the hernia... shes 19 now and still to this day has the most irrational fear of butterflies

I used to believe that if you didn't go to sleep, the sun would never come up.

I used to believe…

When I was younger, I used to believe people couldn't hear you humming, until in the second grade I got scolded at for humming.

I used to believe…

When i was little i thought that the soul was a physical part of your body that looked like shell pasta

I used to believe…

As a child I used to believe we had to seperate systems for digesting liquids and solids. I mean; they go in that way and they come out that way...only logical there are to stomachs then...

I used to believe…

My little brother thought that tears and pee were the same thing. He thought he cried out urine.

I used to believe…

My mother convinced me for most of my childhood that if I didn't pee when I had to, I would explode...just like her "friend" Susie! Years later, she admitted she made it all up just so my sisters and I would go to the bathroom before we left the house.

I used to believe…

My mom used to "check" to see if I was full enough from a meal by feeling my stomach. If I hadn't eaten enough she'd say "oops! I think you missed a spot riiight here!" I would always try and stick my belly out as far as I possible so I could be done eating and go play. :)

I used to think that everyone had a ball of hair wound tight inside their head. The ball would unwind and our hair would grow, but when there was no more ball of hair, you went bald. Everyone had different size balls of hair in their cranium and depending on how big your ball was, determined how long until you went bald.

I once asked my father why people yawn. He replied that it was "your body telling you to find shelter." I believed him for years.

I used to believe…

If I farted around my sister when I was younger, she would tell me, "Girls aren't supposed to fart. I've never farted in my entire life." She had a innocent little girl year old thinking something was wrong with her for the next few years.

I used to believe…

When I was little I believed that i had two stomachs; one for dinner and one for desert! Because, i would get full on dinner, but when desert came around, oh boy! I could eat everything!

I used to believe…

For a large part of my childhood, my family had me believing that I had a freckle that would apper on my nose when I blinked.

I used to believe…

When I was a kid, I used to believe that ducks walked across your face at night and poop, and that's where eye crusties came from. I used to try and stay up as late as I could to try and see the duck.