general

as a kid my mom used to tell me that if I didn't take a bath/shower, spiders would start living in my hair. I don't think i ever really believed it, but i always ended up bathing after she told me.

drfish

At age 5 my babysitter told me that me that my insides would collape if I sneezed and farted at the same time.

Anon

My best friend Maggie's dad told her that if she ate bread crusts it would help her learn to whistle. She told me. So we would eat everyone else's bread crusts at lunch. I didn't like the bread crust much, but I ate it thinking it would help me whistle until I was way too old.. Like 13.

Brit

When I was little my grandfather told me that if I didn't stick my tongue in the spot where my tooth was pulled it would grow in as a gold tooth. I was always disappointed because I never grew in a gold tooth. I also never could keep my tongue out of there!

Anon

I used to think that the things you get in your teeth were called feelings.

Anon

When I was little, I used to believe that my dad had a gallon pin for donating blood because he would donate a gallon at a time.

Anon

When I was a kid, I used to believe that men could get pregnant. So whenever I see a fat man I would think he is pregnant.

Saden

I know this sounds really gross, but I used to think that when you had your tonsils out, the doctors would actually cure your throat open, because I wondered how they would be able to reach them so far down when putting the equipment through your mouth!

Natasha

When I was a kid, taking the example of pipes that supply
hot and cold water, and take away waste from the drain, I assumed that the
things you ate and drank travelled around one's body in similar pipes,
metal no less. I believed that there two openings in the back of ones
mouth or throat; once was the pipe for liquids, one was the pipe for
food. I suppose I came up with this arbitrary separtion by noting the
separate "pipes" for liquid and solid waste. I was always curious to know
how exactly your body managed to direct food or liquid to the appropriate
pipe and how it dealt when say, I mixed a bit of water with my food as I
ate.

Stuart

When I was young...I was watching my aunt breast feed her son and I asked her why she switched sides. She told me because one side is white milk and the other side is chocolate milk. For the longest time i actually thought that was true!

S.

Whenever my parents were just waking up, they would yawn. So I thought yawning was something you did when you were waking up. My mother sent me to take a nap that I didn't want to take when I was about 3, and my argument was, "I'm yawning! You only yawn when you're not tired anymore!"

Heather C.

As a child I habitually had a blocked nose, which meant I usually had to breathe through my mouth. I used to think that if I were able to breathe through my nose, not only would I be able to breath air, I would also be able to breath under water. I evidentlly believed that all nose breathers could breathe under water. I tried it once - it definitely didn't work!! :-)

Jamie Anderson

When I was little, everytime I got a cramp I thought ants we inside my body and were putting salt wherever the cramo was.

Anon

I was told that if one doesn't cover their mouth when yawning that their soul would escape.

Anon

I used to think that when people said they had 'butterflies' in their stomach, there were real butterflies flying around inside.

Anon

I used to think women go to the doctor's several times in their adolescence, and the doctor adds something to grow their tits from time to time.

Eva

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 when you got like a twitching eye or something, it was little bugs under my skin.

Anon

I used to believe that the sound of my heart thudding in my head was the king and queen (of what I don't know) chasing me. This scared me for some reason, making the thudding of my heart go faster and faster which convinced me that they were about to catch me. Wonder I didn't have a heart attack at age 4.

Eileen

When I was a child, I believed that everything had to be even or something terrible would happen - what I did with one hand had to be done with the other, if I chewed food on one side of my mouth, I had to chew it on the other aswell. It was a burden having to remember what foot I started walking on all the time.

Eleanor