general

Until I was about 10 years old, I believed I could breathe through my ears, because sometimes I couldn't feel the air moving in and out of my nose. Never felt it in my ears either, but where else would it have gone?

Robyn

I thought I was the only one in the world who ever belched.

Raya

When I was much younger I didn't know that our bodies had veins and bloor vessels. So I thought that our blood just floated around under our skin. And when I cut myslef my brother would scare me by telling me all of it would come out and I would die.

I know the truth now and to get my brother back I always remind him how he cried in The Lion King movie!

Ley

When I was little i used to think that the whole human body had little people in it, doing all the work, like really small people. That used to run 'round giving oxygen to the people in the muscles and the brain people telling the other people in various body parts what to do. Aswell as people in the stomach ripping everything up and dividing the good stuff to the bad stuff, wasn't until i learnt about the proper functions, i sat there thinking "but what about the little people?"

Asatica

I believed that each person's inner body were all machines, gears, and springs and outer body are soft plush stuffed under the authenic leathers (skin)

Shiloh

When I was a kid I believed that bodies were operated by little people inside of you. They were little people dressed fully in white tights so that all you can see was their face. They talked to you and had weird machines that made your body work. When you got cuts, some would fall out.

Mikhail

When I was about 10 I used to believe that if you burped too much it would make your liver bleed

Lenny

I never realised that you could breathe through your nose, until I saw my dad breathing without opening his mouth. I was really shocked and exclaimed, and everyone just looked at me confused.

Years later, my orthodontist said that I breathed through my mouth an abnormal amount. I always figured that was the reason.

Chris D.

my mum said that when i was 6 whenever i burped i used to say there was a dragon in my tummy that had hiccups!!!!!

gerogia

when i was a little my father told my that when you stare at people with your mouth open to be careful because a fly might fly into your mouth. I still do it as an adult because some people surprise and confuse me. It an awful expression although it shows exactly what your thinking.

lovely1

When I was about three years old I was bleeding for the first time. My choice of words for the ordeal: leaking.

Anon

When i was about 9, my brother and i were sitting around the kitchen table. I had just figured out how to make myself burp and wouldn't stop. Finally my dad said, "You know, you only have so many burps in you, if you use them all up you will have none left to breath with." I beleived it for a year!

Andrea

when any negative idead or thinking came to my mind i used to spit because i thought that it will get out of my mind with my spitting.

neetu

When I was younger - I used to believe my stomach rumbling was little people in there talking to me.

Anon

I thought that if someone jumped over my head, I'd never grow taller then on.

Anon

i used to belive that children had to be taught how to breathe.

Dave

When I was little, I believed that each person had a set amount of blood in their body, and as you got bigger the blood would thin out to fill up your body. I always liked to wear bandaids because they would stop the bleeding if I got cut, so I'd have more blood when I grew up.

Anon

My daughter thought that ear wax was peanut butter.

Bobbiemac