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I used to - and kind of still do - believe that if you hold back your sneezes, your head would explode.

I hold back my sneezes... dundundun...

Kelci

I used to believe that when you smelt of something, breathing out onto it would ruin the smell. To this day I do not exhale on flowers, but point my breath in another direction before I sniff them again.

Anon

from about kindergarten to seventh grade i thought your voice box was like a battery and when you lost your voice your voice battery needed to be recharged.

Anon

I used to believe that women pulled out all their leg hairs with their fingernails. I thought I was supposed to practice pulling out my hairs before I was an adult, and would spend hours yanking hairs out of my arms and legs. It got to the point when it actually showed all the signs of an addiction and my mom had to take me to therapy after she found out what I was doing.

Callie P.

Up until I was *eleven*, I thought "anxiety" was just a word for any negative emotion, the reason being that a lot of my school peers thought I was afraid when I was actually sad/angry.

Anon

I thought that 'clapping' was just ordinary, stationary clapping, and that 'a round of applause' was clapping whilst moving your hands in a circular movement.

BONUS: I thought that 'round of applause' was 'round of a claws'

If You're Dizzy And You Know It

Once when suffering a paticularly nasty bout of constipation when I was very young, I got up my seat and demanded that my mother fetch a kitchen knife to cut off whatever was emerging.

Anon

My mom used to tell me that having the hiccups meant that I was healthy. I am now 29 and I still do not know what it means when people hiccup.

Gary

I WAS TOLD IF YOU DON'T BRUSH YOUR TEETH THEY WILL FALL OUT. WHEN MY TEETH STARTED FALLING OUT I BRUSHED EVEN HARDER THINKING THAT WOULD KEEP THEM FROM FALLING OUT

JEANETTE

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 at school, in primary 1, I used to think if I covered my ears, and began to sing or talk no one could hear me. I suppose I thought because I couldn't hear them, they couldn't hear me!

Clare, Ireland

when i was little,i was afraid to go to sleep,not because of monsters,but because i thought i couldn't breath when i was asleep.My brother told me when your asleep,your body cant work,so i took a deep breath every night before i went to sleep

alex\

I used to believe that if you sneezed with your eyes open you would die!

Becky

When I was about 5, my brother, who was about 13 at the time, told me that every time I blew my nose that part of my brain was coming out. After that I always looked into the kleenex to see how much of my brain I had lost. I believed him until I was about 8 or 9.

Kara

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

I used to believe that good and expensive joggers would make me run fast.

Kats

i used to believe that when we eat, our food gets collected in our tummy and never come out again as excretery waste. and i thought the excretery waste we let out was the dirt from our body !!!

haych square

My mom told be that when you got the hiccups, it meant a little elf was jumping around in your stomach. I tried to calm him down by sitting still or laying down but the hiccups wouldn't stop!

Jean

When I was young my, very superstitious, grandmother would tell my sister and I that everytime we hiccupped a drop of blood would fall off our heart. Everytime i got the hiccupps I would panic and hold my breath or eat a spoon full of suger (upside-down) until they went away, paranoid that my heart would dry out and I would die from them. I still think about it when I feel them coming on!

Lilith333

When i was little, maybe 3 or 4, i used to think that tears actually weren't real, they were just a myth. Once i got really mad at my parents, and i went off and started crying tears! i was so surprised, i started crying even more.

Morgan