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When I was only about 3, I thought that blood was yellow, because earlier
I had popped a blister and yellowish-clear stuff came out. I thought that you
peed out the old blood and kept the new in your body until it got too old,
and I was always afraid that if I peed for too long, all my new blood would
come out and I wouldn't have enough blood. I always held in a little bit,
just in case it was new blood. I believed this for about a week until I cut
myself and thought something was wrong with me, and I screamed to my mom, "MOMMY,MOMMY! my blood is red!
Am I gonna die?!!!" Heh heh. :P :D :)

aero_girl

When I was 5, I asked my mom why we had blood and she told me it takes the food to all the parts of our bodies. I had an image of little red stick figures in tubes pushing whole peas through my body for a long time!

Silly

When I was a little girl, my father told me that odd pains and twinges in your legs or other places were caused by random cosmic rays from outer space passing through your body...
I believed this solidly, and convinced others, until I was 17 years old... When I told my father how well he'd fooled me, he thought it was pretty funny...!

Alison

I used to believe that my mum's kisses had magical powers and they protected you from all things scary for 8 hours. Farts had the same affect if deployed in bed....

Farting Weirdo

Once, when i was little, my mother took me to a friends house.
They had just redone the walls of the stairway, with a special paint which could be shaped into a curvy pattern.
I asked to go to the toilet and was told not to touch the walls as they were still wet.
Naturally, i left a handprint there and i was rushed off to have my hand washed.
I had heard that no matter how much you wash something, the germs wil never all go away.
I believed my hand was now made of paint, and i no longer needed brushes for paintings.

Maverick

when i was in sixth grade i didn't know what masturbating was and someone asked me if i masturbated and i thought they meant masticate so i said yes because of course i chew my food and everyone laughed at me

JiJi

I used to belive that you only were given so much Voice when you were born, so that at some point I'd run out. So I began to try to talk as little as possible!

Lauren D.

When I was little my Grandfather would always tell me that If I thought too much I may grow cucumbers? He would say," You know what thought did right? It grew cucumbers." See if yall could figue that one out it took me 7 years til he finally told me!

Danny Benvin

I once over-heard a conversation between classmates. The sentence was:
"My mom hates bending over."

I took it more as: "My mom never bends over or can't bend over." For years I tried to figure out how his mom would do household chores such as opening the oven to take something out without bending.

It wasn't until as an adult that I thought of the conversation and realized what was really said,
"She hates bending, that doesn't mean she doesn't do it."

The realization hit me when I reallized as an adult that I really can't stand bending over either. This evident by the complaints from my wife as to the length of my toe nails.

Keith

that god made us blink fast so we didn't miss tv

SecondOne

I believed that it was natural for everyone to have a smile on their face at all times. I was shocked when one day when I was about 2,I looked at my mommy, who was watching television, and she had a serious look on her face.

Kat

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.

short of braincells

I used to think when somebody sneezed you were supposed to say 'Gableshew'.

gablesh

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.

M-P (Germany)

I am a synaesthetic, meaning that I have extreme sense-mesh in which I mentally can do things like feel colours and see sounds. I assumed everyone else was like this as well, until I was about 13 or so.

Demitria Monde Thraam

I used to believe, after my uncle told me when I was about five, that if you ever happened to fart, burp, hiccup, cough, and sneeze at the same time, you'd blow up and die.

Now I know better cause I have common sense.

~anonymous

I had these nosebleeds as a child and clumps of bloody matter would often be in the tissue. I used to believe that those clumps were actual pieces of my brain. I thought this was true because I learned in class about the Egyptian mummification process of scraping the brain out through the nose.

L. Edwards